Cloud Platform DevOps Architect

Summary

Join Encora as a Platform Architect with DevOps experience and optimize development and operational processes with a significant emphasis on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will empower product engineering teams by implementing a base platform and self-service deployment mechanisms. The ideal candidate is passionate about developer experience and possesses a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and production support. You will collaborate with a team of engineers to drive efficiency and scalability. This is a full-time, work-from-home position located in Brazil.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience implementing DevOps processes and CICD automation
• Strong expertise in AWS services and architecture, with relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer)

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain a scalable base platform in the cloud and the mechanisms that allow product teams to deploy their products to the cloud using a self-service model using AWS infrastructure solutions and services such as EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, Glue, SQS, Lambda and Service Catalog
• Develop and manage technical mechanisms that empower product teams to deploy their products through a CI/CD pipeline, automating the software delivery process, ensuring rapid and reliable deployments
• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline workflows and enhance the overall software development lifecycle
• Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and security across the AWS platform
• Implement best practices in infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and monitoring to ensure operational excellence
• Manage incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for production issues
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement and innovation within the team
• Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures
• Conduct proactive capacity planning and performance tuning to ensure optimal resource utilization
• Enable product development teams to use the cloud platform through training and documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash)
• Demonstrable experience with the following tools: Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Data Dog and Splunk
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and compliance frameworks within cloud environments

Benefits

Work from home