DevOps Engineer - Evisort

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
• Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes
• Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level
• Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers
• Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and thousands of requests per second
• Closely collaborate with Developers to set up, configure, and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS
• Secure our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)
• Build and expand monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating with third-party SaaS solutions
• Establish comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our platform
• Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity
• Champion automation of manual processes and reduce operational overhead

Requirements

• 5+ years DevOps experience
• 2+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2
• 2+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem
• A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, particularly with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible
• Production experience creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS across multiple regions
• Experience building, maintaining, and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
• Experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters like RabbitMQ, SQS, or Kafka
• Strong hands-on experience with the AWS ecosystem
• Familiarity with service mesh concepts and frameworks like Istio or Linkerd
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch for logging, and alerting tools like PagerDuty
• Experience automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
• Security-centric approach to infrastructure design and deployment
• Ability to quickly learn complex systems from network to application layers

Nice to Have

• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Go, Python, Bash, or Typescript
• Experience with building and scaling message queues like RabbitMQ, SQS, or Kafka
• Experience with build systems such as GitHub or GitLab CI

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary with pay ranges from $122,400 to $217,200 USD depending on location and experience
• Potential eligibility for bonuses, stock grants, and other compensation
• Flexible work approach combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% in-office time each quarter
• Comprehensive benefits package (details available for Colorado residents)