DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD & Cloud Infrastructure) – Remote | U.S. Hours

Position Type: Full-Time, Remote
Working Hours: U.S. Client Business Hours (flexibility for deployments, incidents, and on-call rotations)
About the Role

At Pavago , one of our clients is hiring a DevOps Engineer to build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation systems.
This role is focused on:

- Cloud infrastructure

- CI/CD pipelines

- Kubernetes & containerization

- Monitoring & reliability

- Infrastructure automation

- Security & scalability

You’ll work closely with engineering teams to ensure systems are:

- Secure

- Reliable

- Scalable

- Fast to deploy

If you enjoy automating infrastructure, improving deployment workflows, and solving production-scale reliability challenges, this role is a strong fit.
What You’ll Own
Cloud Infrastructure & Infrastructure-as-Code (Core Focus)

- Provision and manage infrastructure on:

- AWS

- GCP

- Azure

- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using:

- Terraform

- Pulumi

- CloudFormation

- Configure:

- Networking

- Compute resources

- Storage systems

- Scaling environments

- Optimize infrastructure reliability and cost efficiency

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

- Build and maintain pipelines using:

- GitHub Actions

- Jenkins

- GitLab CI

- CircleCI

- Automate:

- Builds

- Testing

- Deployments

- Support:

- Zero-downtime deployments

- Rollback strategies

- Multi-environment deployments

Containerization & Kubernetes

- Manage:

- Docker containers

- Kubernetes clusters

- Deploy and support microservices environments

- Monitor cluster health and performance

- Optimize containerized workloads for:

- Performance

- Scalability

- Reliability

Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response

- Implement observability tools such as:

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- Datadog

- New Relic

- Configure:

- Logging pipelines

- Alerts

- Monitoring dashboards

- Participate in:

- Incident response

- Root cause analysis

- On-call rotations

Security & Compliance

- Apply cloud security best practices:

- IAM

- Least privilege access

- Encryption

- Support compliance initiatives:

- SOC 2

- HIPAA

- PCI

- GDPR

- Run vulnerability scans and proactive patching

Automation & Collaboration

- Partner with developers to improve deployment workflows

- Eliminate bottlenecks through automation

- Document:

- Infrastructure

- Pipelines

- Operational runbooks

- Continuously improve reliability and deployment speed

What Makes You a Strong Fit

- You enjoy solving infrastructure and automation challenges

- You stay calm during incidents and troubleshoot methodically

- You care deeply about reliability, scalability, and security

- You proactively automate repetitive operational work

- You collaborate effectively with engineering teams

Required Experience & Skills

- 3+ years of experience in:

- DevOps

- SRE

- Infrastructure engineering

- Strong experience with:

- AWS, GCP, or Azure

- CI/CD pipelines

- Docker

- Kubernetes

- Experience with:

- Infrastructure-as-Code

- Monitoring systems

- Deployment automation

- Strong understanding of:

- Cloud networking

- System reliability

- Production infrastructure

Nice to Have

- Strong Terraform or Pulumi expertise

- Experience in:

- SaaS

- Fintech

- Healthcare

- Enterprise applications

- Exposure to:

- Serverless architecture

- AWS Lambda

- Cloud Functions

- Cloud or DevOps certifications:

- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

- CKA

- Kubernetes certifications

What a Typical Day Looks Like

- Monitor infrastructure and production systems

- Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows

- Provision or modify infrastructure with Terraform

- Troubleshoot deployment or performance issues

- Collaborate with developers on scaling and reliability

- Review logs, alerts, and system metrics

- Update documentation and operational runbooks

In short:
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