DevOps Engineer

Company Description Longline Environment is focused on solving complex aquatic challenges through radical, technology-driven solutions. The company applies advanced engineering and software practices to create tools and platforms that improve the monitoring, management, and protection of aquatic environments.
Role Description: This is a part-time remote DevOps Engineer role. The DevOps Engineer will design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices to ensure systems are secure, resilient, and scalable. Tasks include building and optimising CI pipelines, managing deployments, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues across development and production environments. The role involves close collaboration with software engineers to streamline release processes, improve automation, and enhance observability. The DevOps Engineer will also contribute to documentation, best practices, and continuous improvement of the overall development and operations workflow.
What you'll do
Be first responder for incidents, in and out of hours: diagnose, restore service, keep stakeholders informed, and write a short post-incident report
Run monitoring and alerting across services, certificates, server health and backups
Keep operating systems, runtimes, databases and supporting services patched and up to date
Own backups and disaster recovery, including regular restore tests so that any server can be rebuilt within a day
Manage security: SSH and firewall hardening, access control across systems, and secret rotation
Own production deployments and move them into CI/CD pipelines
Watch capacity and resize or split workloads as needed
Lead the consolidation of infrastructure across cloud and hosting providers
Look after DNS, domains and TLS certificates
Manage the third-party services our platforms depend on (email delivery, storage, code hosting and similar)
Review hosting costs monthly and flag anything that grows
Keep infrastructure documentation current, including the reasoning behind non-obvious decisions
What we're looking for
Solid Linux server administration experience in production
Hands-on experience with web servers, relational databases and identity/SSO services
Experience with at least one major cloud provider and with dedicated or VPS hosting
Comfortable with CI/CD, scripting and infrastructure automation
A track record of handling incidents calmly and writing things down
Willingness to take part in out-of-hours on-call
How we work
You'll have clear ownership of operations. Application code and architecture stay with the architect and developers: you raise application issues, they fix them, and you're consulted on changes that affect the infrastructure.

Work arrangement
Yes