DevOps Engineer

Role summary

Own and operate AWS production infrastructure in close partnership with the existing offshore DevOps engineer, providing near-around-the-clock coverage for a consumer automotive 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 environment built on modern web frameworks and a dedicated search infrastructure.
• Lead the rollout and ongoing maturation of CI/CD pipelines across all production services.
• Drive edge infrastructure simplification, including evaluating and migrating routing and traffic-management approaches as the architecture evolves.
• Build out production-grade monitoring, alerting, and incident-response tooling, and participate in the on-call rotation.
• Own ongoing cloud cost optimization (FinOps), proactively identifying and eliminating waste across compute, storage, and networking resources.
• Operate and tune production search infrastructure, including scaling procedures to handle traffic surges.
• Continuously review and tighten access-control policies across the environment to reduce overall risk exposure.
• Partner with engineering and data teams on deploys, incident response, and overall security posture, including dependency scanning, secrets management, and uptime monitoring.

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 or equivalent).
• 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/alerting from the ground up.
• Comfortable working in a tightly-coupled, follow-the-sun pairing with an offshore counterpart.
• 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, or similar).
• Experience with Airflow or comparable workflow orchestration.
• Exposure to AI/LLM API cost-management tooling or routing layers.