Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Encora as a Senior DevOps Engineer in Brazil and work remotely! You will collaborate with various teams to design and develop the build, release, and deploy toolchain for DevOps, providing on-call support. Responsibilities include capacity planning, high availability engineering, performance tuning, and automation/tools development. You will lead Kubernetes infrastructure management, implement IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt, and build CI/CD pipelines with Harness. Strong leadership skills and experience managing infrastructure through multiple product releases are essential. A passion for reliability and security is a must.

Requirements

• Experience with DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role supporting cloud-native applications
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes (EKS), including Helm, networking, and security
• Deep proficiency in Terraform and Terragrunt for AWS infrastructure provisioning
• Proven expertise building pipelines with Harness, Git, and associated CI/CD tooling
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python or Golang
• Solid understanding of AWS services: EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch, etc
• Proficient with Linux systems, including performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, Load Balancing
• Experience with Ansible for configuration and provisioning
• Working knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Strong experience in monitoring, logging, and alerting, particularly using New Relic
• Demonstrated ability to support and troubleshoot distributed products

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and management of highly available, scalable Kubernetes infrastructure using Amazon EKS
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Terragrunt
• Champion a Git-first approach to infrastructure and CI/CD automation
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Harness to streamline application delivery across environments
• Drive infrastructure automation and environment consistency across development, staging, and production
• Design and implement monitoring and observability solutions using New Relic, ensuring performance visibility and uptime
• Securely manage secrets using AWS Secrets Manager
• Support production systems through incident management, root cause analysis, and proactive reliability improvements
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to define best practices for deployment, security, and scalability
• Mentor and guide junior DevOps team members and developers in adopting modern infrastructure practices

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other pub/sub systems is a plus

Benefits

Work from home