About the role

Role Overview

DevOps Engineer responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining high-availability infrastructure that supports a rapidly growing microservices ecosystem. You will bridge software development and systems engineering to ensure production workloads run reliably across cloud environments, with automation focused on reducing manual intervention and improving uptime and developer experience.

Responsibilities

Manage and scale multi-region Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform)
Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
Implement centralized observability: logging, metrics, and distributed tracing using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog
Build automated failover, disaster recovery, and backup validation to meet SLAs
Partner with security teams on IAM least privilege, container security scanning, and secret management with HashiCorp Vault
Participate in an on-call rotation: diagnose/mitigate production incidents and run post-mortems

Requirements

3–6 years experience in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering supporting production workloads at scale
Strong production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Deep expertise with IaC, specifically Terraform (or similar like Pulumi)
Solid programming/scripting skills in at least one language, preferably Python, Go, or Bash
Hands-on experience with core AWS services including VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, and Route53

Nice to Have

Experience with Istio (service meshes)
Multi-cloud deployments
Managing large-scale PostgreSQL and Redis databases

About Scale.jobs

Scale.jobs is a platform connecting candidates with technology roles. The job description focuses on building and operating high-availability infrastructure for a microservices environment, with heavy emphasis on cloud, DevOps, and reliability engineering.