DevOps Engineer (Remote)

This is a Fully Remote Job
About Our Client:
The organization operates within the cloud infrastructure and SaaS platform space, focusing on delivering reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services. It addresses the challenges of maintaining complex production environments by providing robust infrastructure solutions and enhancing development and deployment efficiency.
About the Opportunity:
The SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER role is integral to maintaining and improving the cloud infrastructure to support a multi-tenant SaaS platform. This position is responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of the AWS environment, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with engineering teams to resolve infrastructure challenges. The role impacts the organization's ability to deliver stable and efficient software services.
Responsibilities:
Build, maintain, and optimize production AWS infrastructure for reliability, scalability, performance, and security.
Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform, creating reusable modules and configurations.
Operate and enhance AWS services including ECS, Lambda, VPC, S3, IAM, SQS, and CloudWatch.
Optimize infrastructure performance, resource use, and cloud costs.
Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operations to reduce manual tasks.
Collaborate with software engineers to improve development workflows and deployment practices.
Support deployment strategies to enhance platform availability and minimize disruptions.
Maintain and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting to detect and address issues proactively.
Troubleshoot production incidents and implement preventive improvements.
Enhance infrastructure security through IAM policies, network configurations, and best practices.
Participate in security reviews, compliance activities, and operational resilience improvements.
Join shared on-call rotations to support platform reliability.
Collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot infrastructure and improve application performance.
Identify and resolve operational inefficiencies via automation and tooling.
Contribute to infrastructure architecture discussions and establish scalable standards.
Document configurations, procedures, and technical decisions.
Own infrastructure initiatives from planning to support.
Requirements:
5 to 8 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure with hands-on production support.
Strong experience designing and managing AWS infrastructure.
Proficiency with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, VPC, S3, IAM, SQS, and CloudWatch.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, preferably Terraform.
Skill in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
Knowledge of Docker, containerized applications, and container orchestration, ideally AWS ECS.
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
Ability to support applications with high reliability and performance demands.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Proactive ownership and effective communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
Familiarity with Kafka or event-streaming technologies.
Knowledge of advanced deployment strategies such as blue/green or canary releases.
Experience defining and monitoring SLIs and SLOs.
Familiarity with Kubernetes or Amazon EKS.
Background in regulated industries like financial services or healthcare.
Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure or event-driven architectures.
AWS certifications or commitment to technical development.
Pay Range and Compensation Package:
Base Salary: $125,000 - $140,000
Benefits & Perks:
Medical, dental, and vision coverage with up to 100% premiums covered
Flexible paid time off and 12 paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.
Note:
TalentHop is a recruitment partner of this role. Please note that all employment decisions, including candidate assessment, interviews, hiring, compensation, and employment terms, are made exclusively by the hiring employer.

Skills
Python, Golang, Git, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Experience
5-8 yrs

Work arrangement
Yes