DevOps Engineer II

Summary

Join Outliant, a fully-remote digital product development company, as a Mid Level DevOps Engineer. Collaborate with developers to create and implement software applications. Choose your own hours and work with a world-class team. Responsibilities include managing infrastructure, configuring servers, monitoring system health, establishing logging practices, collaborating with development teams, implementing CI/CD pipelines, automating tasks, managing version control, and ensuring codebase stability. The role requires extensive AWS experience, proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, and container technologies. Excellent communication skills and full-time availability are essential. Outliant offers unlimited PTO, non-working holidays, pro-rated 13th-month bonuses (in select regions), salary increases, performance-based bonuses, referral bonuses, and a fun work environment.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of hands-on work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services (S3, CloudFront, ECS, ECR, Lambda)
• Extensive knowledge of AWS, especially AWS CDK
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (CDK and/or Terraform)
• Fundamental knowledge or experience in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), like CloudFormation
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using AWS technologies such as CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, or GitHub Actions (or similar tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, etc.)
• Proven ability to set up CI/CD pipelines with GitHub
• Solid understanding of AWS CDK and SDK
• Proficient in container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Cloudflare
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification
• Background in web development, preferably in JavaScript, primarily for debugging purposes
• Experience working with Agile Teams
• Great documentation and communication skills
• Excellent English communication skills
• Full-time availability (40 hours/week)
• A personal computer with stable internet

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the infrastructure required for software development, deployment, and testing
• Configure and maintain servers, databases, networking, and storage systems
• Monitor the system’s health, performance, and availability
• Establish proper logging practices to facilitate debugging and troubleshooting
• Collaborate with development teams to understand their needs and help them deploy code faster and more efficiently
• Implement and maintain a CI/CD pipeline for the development team, enabling continuous integration, testing and delivery of software changes
• Automate repetitive tasks and write scripts to enable efficient and consistent operations, including deployment, testing, and monitoring
• Manage the version control system and ensure that the codebase is stable, secure, and up to date

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Certification
• AWS CDK and Terraform
• Familiarity with Google Cloud
• AWS Services: Route53, SNS, EKS, DynamoDB, CodeStar

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Non-working holidays per country of residence
• Pro-rated 13th-month bonus in select regions
• Salary increases and performance-based bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Fun and casual work environment
• Employee engagement activities and virtual gatherings