Devops Engineer
Job Description
Appendix A: Job Description for the US-Based DevOps / PlatformUS SHIFT - 10 PM TO 6.00AM EngineerType: Full-time, Reports to: Engineering leadership
Role summaryOwn and operate AWS production infrastructure in close partnership with the existingoffshore DevOps engineer, providing near-around-the-clock coverage for a consumerautomotive platform (inventory search, dealer tools, AI-led negotiation) running on AWS,Cloudflare, and Vercel.Key responsibilities- Own AWS infrastructure end to end, including compute, networking, load balancing,CDN, and identity/access management, across a multi-service production environmentbuilt on modern web frameworks and a dedicated search infrastructure.- Lead the rollout and ongoing maturation of CI/CD pipelines across all productionservices.- Drive edge infrastructure simplification, including evaluating and migrating routing andtraffic-management approaches as the architecture evolves.- Build out production-grade monitoring, alerting, and incident-response tooling, andparticipate in the on-call rotation.- Own ongoing cloud cost optimization (FinOps), proactively identifying and eliminatingwaste across compute, storage, and networking resources.- Operate and tune production search infrastructure, including scaling procedures tohandle traffic surges.- Continuously review and tighten access-control policies across the environment toreduce overall risk exposure.- Partner with engineering and data teams on deploys, incident response, and overallsecurity posture, including dependency scanning, secrets management, and uptimemonitoring.Qualifications- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience: EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, ALB/ELB, CloudFront,CodeBuild/CodeDeploy.- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions orequivalent).- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL administration; MySQL familiarity a plus.- Scripting proficiency in Python and/or Bash for automation and operational tooling.- Experience owning production on-call responsibilities and building observability/alertingfrom the ground up.- Comfortable working in a tightly-coupled, follow-the-sun pairing with an offshorecounterpart.- Cost-conscious mindset; direct cloud cost optimization experience a plus.Nice to have- Experience with Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, Workers).- Experience with search infrastructure (Typesense, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, orsimilar).- Experience with Airflow or comparable workflow orchestration.- Exposure to AI/LLM API cost-management tooling or routing layers.
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Department: Technology & Innovation
Experience: 5+ years
Posted: 2026-07-01T12:00:00.14Z