DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote / NYC (East Coast) Reports to: SVP, Engineering

Overview

Own end-to-end DevOps initiatives with minimal handholding. You will modernize and scale TelmarHelixa’s digital infrastructure, working closely with Engineering, Security, IT Product Management, and QA to deliver secure, reliable, and cost-efficient systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps tasks end-to-end (design through delivery) with strong ownership.
• Optimize, deploy, and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes on AWS (EKS).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Improve and support Git-based CI/CD pipelines for builds, tests, deployments, and rollbacks.
• Partner with Security to identify/remediate vulnerabilities, enforce least-privilege, and support compliance.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues in distributed systems.
• Establish and evolve monitoring, alerting, and logging for 24x7x365 system visibility.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap to improve scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Mentor junior team members and promote an ownership culture.
• Act as a key escalation point for outages and critical system events.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE in cloud-native environments.
• Deep hands-on AWS expertise (e.g., EC2, Elasticsearch, S3, IAM, Bedrock, EKS).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Git-based CI/CD workflows.
• Proficiency with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
• Strong scripting/programming skills: Python and/or Bash.
• Knowledge of high-availability architectures: load balancing, failover, and security best practices.
• Ability to own initiatives and deliver with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, IT product, QA, and security.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building monitoring/logging and incident response for always-on (24x7x365) platforms.
• Experience working directly with security/compliance requirements for cloud infrastructure.