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DevOps Engineer (Remote)

About the role

We are hiring a remote DevOps Engineer to keep our infrastructure reliable, our deployments boring, and our cloud costs under control.

You will report to the founder.

What you will do

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
  • Manage cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform
  • Run containers with Docker and Kubernetes or ECS
  • Set up monitoring, logging, and alerts
  • Manage backups and test restores

What success looks like in the first 90 days

  • Every deployment runs through the pipeline, with no manual steps
  • Alerts on the services that matter, with a runbook for each
  • Backups tested with a restore at least once a quarter

Tools you will use

  • AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
  • Terraform
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • Grafana or Datadog

What we are looking for

  • Three or more years running production infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code
  • Experience with containers and CI/CD
  • Calm and methodical during incidents, with clear written updates

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours a week, remote. Working hours overlap with U.S. Eastern Time business hours.

How to apply

Send your resume and a short note on the most relevant work you have done. Tell us which of the tasks above you have done before and the tools you used. Applications without a note will not be reviewed.

More tasks you can add

  • Review and reduce cloud costs
  • Handle access, secrets, and security patches
  • Write runbooks for common incidents

Interview questions for this role

  1. How do you roll back a bad deploy, and how long does it take in your last setup?
  2. What belongs in Terraform and what should stay out of it?
  3. How do you keep secrets out of the repository and the build logs?
  4. Tell me about an incident you handled. What changed afterward?
  5. How do you find what is driving a cloud bill up?

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