DevOps Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and scale our infrastructure and deployment systems. You will play a critical role in automating processes, improving system reliability, and enabling rapid, secure delivery of our backend services.

This role requires a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices, along with a proactive mindset toward system reliability, observability, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available backend infrastructure
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Deploy, manage, and monitor containerized applications using Docker (and orchestration tools if applicable)
• Manage multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments
• Implement and maintain configuration management using Ansible
• Improve system observability through logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
• Ensure high system uptime, performance, and scalability through proactive optimization
• Collaborate with development teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows
• Enforce and implement security best practices across infrastructure and application layers
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, processes, and runbooks

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with JavaScript and TypeScript in backend or tooling environments
• Proven experience with Node.js in production systems
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application deployment
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS and Azure
• Experience with Ansible or similar configuration management tools
• Solid understanding of backend server infrastructure and distributed systems
• Experience deploying and maintaining production-grade systems
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls)
• Familiarity with Linux-based systems and command-line environments
• Understanding of version control systems (e.g., Git) and branching strategies

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog)
• Experience with secrets management and secure configuration (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• Experience with autoscaling, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies
• Familiarity with API gateways, reverse proxies, and load balancers (e.g., NGINX, HAProxy)
• Experience with artifact repositories and package management

Security & Compliance Expectations

• Strong understanding of secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices
• Experience implementing identity and access management (IAM) policies
• Familiarity with vulnerability scanning, patch management, and dependency security
• Knowledge of encryption standards (TLS, data-at-rest encryption)
• Awareness of compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
• Experience with security monitoring, logging, and incident response

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience working with IoT devices (e.g., System on Chip, BrightSign players, Android-based devices)
• Familiarity with edge computing and remote device management
• Experience supporting distributed device fleets at scale
• Knowledge of both Linux and Windows operating systems in production environments
• Experience with message queues or streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)