DevOps Engineer

Role As a DevOps Engineer at Octus, you will play a crucial role in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure for our products. This position involves close collaboration with Application Developers, Data Engineers, SRE, Security, and IT professionals to automate and streamline operations and processes. Your contributions will be essential in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems and applications. Core Responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes. Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency. Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost‑effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus. Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications. Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications. Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability. Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies. Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations. Participate in on‑call rotation to provide system support. Core Requirements At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role. At least 2+ years of experience with Terraform. Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent). Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling. Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve, and document RCA of incidents. Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls. Extensive experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent). Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, including managing microservices architectures. Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent. Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch or equivalent. Excellent communication skill, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross‑functional teams. Compensation Estimate $165,000 – $190,000 Equal Employment Opportunity Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed. #J-18808-Ljbffr