DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join The NewRich Network's dev team as a talented DevOps Engineer, contributing to the continuous deployment of our MVP, including in-house CRM and billing systems. This part-time role offers the potential to transition to full-time within three months. The position is fully remote, providing flexibility and work-from-home opportunities. You will play a key role in managing cloud resources, ensuring security operations, configuring networking and DNS, managing user identities and permissions, implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies, and maintaining compliance and logging. The ideal candidate possesses proven experience with AWS services and IaC tools, a strong understanding of cloud security, and excellent communication and organizational skills. Competitive compensation, remote flexibility, and a supportive team culture are offered.

Requirements

• Proven experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices and AWS security tools
• Solid understanding of VPC, routing, subnets, DNS, and load balancing
• Familiarity with identity and access management in multi-account AWS environments
• Experience designing and testing disaster recovery strategies in AWS
• Knowledge of compliance requirements and logging best practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational, time-management, and prioritization abilities
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and drive initiatives forward

Responsibilities

• Provision, monitor, and scale EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc
• Maintain uptime using CloudWatch alarms, Auto Scaling Groups, and Health Checks
• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to version and deploy infrastructure
• Manage IAM roles, policies, and SCPs (via AWS Organizations)
• Implement security best practices
• MFA for admin users
• Principle of least privilege
• Secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
• Set up and monitor AWS WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, and Macie
• Coordinate regular penetration testing and vulnerability patching
• Configure VPC subnets, peering, routing, NAT gateways, and internet gateways
• Monitor latency and optimize routing using Route 53 geolocation and failover strategies
• Set up private/public subnets for proper service exposure
• Troubleshoot and maintain ALB/NLB load balancers
• Maintain AWS IAM Identity Center
• Set up cross-account role assumptions for developers and admins
• Configure and automate backups for RDS, DynamoDB, and S3 (including versioning and replication)
• Ensure and test disaster recovery plans, including regional failover
• Document and maintain RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) metrics
• Maintain audit logs via CloudTrail, AWS Config, and centralized logging systems
• Coordinate with engineering teams on PII tagging, data encryption (at rest and in transit), and retention policies
• Maintain architecture diagrams and infrastructure documentation
• Create and update runbooks for incident response, scaling events, failovers, and security breaches

Preferred Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation : Includes base salary, profit-sharing pool, and equity options
• Remote Flexibility : Fully remote work, flexible hours, generous PTO and sick leave
• Startup Impact : Small, agile team where your voice matters and you can shape the product and architecture
• Growth & Innovation : Work with a modern tech stack, fast career growth opportunities, and no micromanagement
• Team Culture : Annual company retreat, collaborative and supportive environment