DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer:

We are looking for a full-time, remote DevOps Engineer with 3 to 5 years of work experience to work with our U.S. client. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing highly secure, scalable, and reliable cloud platform solutions on AWS. You will collaborate with the Head of DevOps and other technical leaders to build and maintain infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and security processes. Additionally, you will play a key role in supporting ISO 27001 / ISMS / SOC2 Type II compliance efforts.

This role requires strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, excellent communication, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. While an infrastructure background is beneficial, you should also be comfortable writing scripts and basic software code to enhance and streamline operations.

Our client is on a mission to make people more productive by providing cloud-based document management and file sharing solutions that automate routine, repetitive tasks. They are a subsidiary of a publicly traded company that trades on the London Stock Exchange. With hundreds of thousands of users already onboard today, our client is in growth mode, building new products to serve the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the Australia / New Zealand markets.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Head of DevOps to define detailed technical requirements, plan work, and prioritize tasks according to business needs
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud platform solutions
• Ensure strict security compliance and best practices in cloud infrastructure
• Drive automation to improve efficiency, scalability, and system reliability
• Strive for zero downtime when deploying solutions or services
• Develop and own scalable processes for: Capacity planning, Configuration management, Monitoring, and observability
• Provide day-to-day operational support and perform systems administration tasks
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the platform 24/7
• Ensure high-quality monitoring coverage for infrastructure and applications
• Identify potential failure points in infrastructure and proactively develop mitigation strategies
• Collaborate with internal IT teams for operational support
• Assist in maintaining compliance with ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type II security frameworks

Required Experience:

• Excellent English communication and collaboration skills
• 3 to 5 years of DevOps experience
• Strong AWS experience in infrastructure, security, and automation
• Technical infrastructure knowledge across servers, storage, and networks
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Podman, etc.)
• Experience with SQL
• Comfortable working in high-security and high-compliance environments
• Hands-on experience scripting and coding for DevOps automation
• Experience in database administration, performance tuning, and resilience design
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and best practices
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting for large distributed systems
• Strong networking fundamentals (IP, traffic flow, network ports, protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, FTP)
• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and drive resolution
• Experience managing large-scale tasks from inception to completion
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles

Desired Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related fields
• Experience with automation tooling (e.g., HashiCorp products, configuration management tools)
• Experience with automated testing in DevOps workflows
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), shift-left principles, and immutable infrastructure
• Experience working in ISO 27001, PCI compliance, or SOC2 Type II environments

Additional Information:

• Knowing your ideas are heard and matter, think big!
• You get to own your job and be recognized for your contributions
• Work with smart and creative people
• Making mistakes is human. Let's learn from them. Be transparent!
• We recognize you as an individual, with no presumptions or judgment. Be the extraordinary you!
• 15 days Paid Time Off (PTO), 1 floating day, 3 sick days, and designated national holidays
• Start: ASAP

About Velozient:

We are a privately held, nearshore software development company providing outsourced development resources to North American companies. Our mission is to offer development talent that enjoy taking on challenging work, want to grow their skills and experiences building software, and excel in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment. We are focused on providing world-class remote resources to work as valued client team members. If this type of opportunity excites you, then consider joining our team!