DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

FirmPilot is hiring a mid-level DevOps Engineer focused on Continuous Delivery and building reliable, frequent deployment pipelines. You’ll partner closely with the development team, with direct ownership of infrastructure and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Build Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines for safe, frequent production deployments
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability
• Evaluate and implement infrastructure solutions and best practices as needs evolve
• Support security best practices across containerized services
• Own observability and monitoring across backend and frontend systems
• Participate in daytime on-call rotation, contribute to incident response, and support postmortems
• Collaborate daily with the development team (standups for priorities, blockers, in-flight work)

Requirements

• Solid understanding of Continuous Delivery principles with real-world implementation using Terraform and GitHub Actions
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure at scale, including:
  • Multi-account environments and IAM
  • ECS Fargate
  • SNS/SQS and event-driven architectures
• Strong background in containerization and Docker
• Familiarity with cloud-native security best practices
• Ability to use monitoring/observability tools to diagnose performance issues across the stack (including frontend)
• Strong troubleshooting skills for distributed, event-driven systems
• Experience with feature flags and progressive rollouts
• Honesty, discipline, curiosity, and strong ownership/communication in incidents

Nice to Have

• Kubernetes experience (EKS workloads)

Additional Responsibilities (Internal IT)

• Support internal employee technology requests (device setup, troubleshooting, installations, access)
• Provision/deprovision employee accounts for onboarding/offboarding
• Manage company-issued hardware and lifecycle/inventory
• Maintain user access permissions and assist with identity/access management best practices
• Support endpoint security initiatives (compliance, access controls)
• Document internal IT processes and maintain technical documentation

Compensation

• Expected salary range: $115,000–$130,000 annually