Dev Ops Engineer

Role overview

Vehlo is hiring a hands-on DevOps / Platform Engineer to deliver its 2026 platform strategy across IT performance visibility, vulnerability & risk management, APM, and FinOps. The role includes rolling out New Relic across AWS accounts, migrating to GitHub Enterprise Advanced Security, building a Jira + Confluence foundation for reporting, and standardizing Terraform modules and GitHub Actions workflows.

Responsibilities

• New Relic & APM implementation
  • Deploy and manage New Relic APM, infrastructure, and browser agents across AWS (ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, EC2, EKS)
  • Standardize alert policies and dashboards using Terraform
  • Optimize telemetry ingest, manage drop rules, and control observability costs
• GitHub Enterprise & vulnerability management
  • Lead migration to GitHub Enterprise with SSO, branch protections, CODEOWNERS, and Advanced Security
  • Create reusable GitHub Actions workflows to streamline CI/CD
  • Operationalize vulnerability data into actionable Jira workflows with SLA tracking and reporting
• Jira, Confluence & reporting
  • Design/manage Jira projects, workflows, automations, and permissions
  • Administer Confluence spaces, templates, and backups
  • Build centralized reporting for delivery performance, risk, and application health (via APM)
• FinOps & cost visibility
  • Create domain-level cost dashboards using AWS, New Relic, and SaaS data
  • Drive cost optimization (e.g., S3 Intelligent Tiering, lifecycle policies, telemetry drop rules, decommissioning)
  • Support vendor renewal evaluations and cost analysis
• Standardization & daily operations
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules, GitHub Actions workflows, and engineering templates
  • Author reference documentation and promote best practices
  • Own shared AWS infrastructure (provisioning, access management, networking, maintenance)
  • Triage Dependabot PRs, fine-tune alerts, support deploys/migrations, participate in on-call, and create/run operational runbooks

Requirements

• Strong hands-on DevOps/platform engineering experience (owns infrastructure and ships code)
• Experience implementing/operating observability (APM) and alerting
• Experience standardizing infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows
• Experience operationalizing security/vulnerability findings into ticketing workflows (Jira)
• Ability to manage daily platform operations, including incident response/on-call

Nice-to-haves / implied areas of focus

• New Relic implementation across AWS
• GitHub Enterprise Advanced Security migration (SSO, branch protections, CODEOWNERS)
• FinOps practices and cost dashboards/optimization
• Terraform module standardization for a small team

Location / travel

• Remote (U.S.)
• Travel: < 5%