DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD & Cloud Infrastructure) – Remote | U.S. Hours

Position Type: Full-Time, Remote Working Hours: U.S. Client Business Hours (flexibility for deployments, incidents, and on-call rotations)

About the Role

At Pavago, one of our clients is hiring a DevOps Engineer to build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation systems. This role is focused on:

• Cloud infrastructure
• CI/CD pipelines
• Kubernetes & containerization
• Monitoring & reliability
• Infrastructure automation
• Security & scalability

You’ll work closely with engineering teams to ensure systems are:

• Secure
• Reliable
• Scalable
• Fast to deploy

If you enjoy automating infrastructure, improving deployment workflows, and solving production-scale reliability challenges, this role is a strong fit.

What You’ll Own

Cloud Infrastructure & Infrastructure-as-Code (Core Focus)

• Provision and manage infrastructure on:

• AWS

• GCP

• Azure
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using:

• Terraform

• Pulumi

• CloudFormation

• Configure

• Networking

• Compute resources

• Storage systems

• Scaling environments
• Optimize infrastructure reliability and cost efficiency

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

• Build and maintain pipelines using:

• GitHub Actions

• Jenkins

• GitLab CI

• CircleCI

• Automate

• Builds

• Testing

• Deployments

• Support
• Zero-downtime deployments

• Rollback strategies
• Multi-environment deployments

Containerization & Kubernetes

• Manage:

• Docker containers

• Kubernetes clusters
• Deploy and support microservices environments
• Monitor cluster health and performance

• Optimize containerized workloads for

• Performance

• Scalability

• Reliability

Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response

• Implement observability tools such as:

• Prometheus

• Grafana

• Datadog

• New Relic

• Configure

• Logging pipelines

• Alerts

• Monitoring dashboards

• Participate in

• Incident response

• Root cause analysis
• On-call rotations

Security & Compliance

• Apply cloud security best practices:

• IAM

• Least privilege access

• Encryption

• Support compliance initiatives

• SOC 2

• HIPAA

• PCI

• GDPR
• Run vulnerability scans and proactive patching

Automation & Collaboration

• Partner with developers to improve deployment workflows

• Eliminate bottlenecks through automation

• Document

• Infrastructure

• Pipelines

• Operational runbooks
• Continuously improve reliability and deployment speed

What Makes You a Strong Fit

• You enjoy solving infrastructure and automation challenges
• You stay calm during incidents and troubleshoot methodically
• You care deeply about reliability, scalability, and security
• You proactively automate repetitive operational work
• You collaborate effectively with engineering teams

Required Experience & Skills

• 3+ years of experience in:

• DevOps

• SRE

• Infrastructure engineering

• Strong experience with
• AWS, GCP, or Azure

• CI/CD pipelines

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Experience with
• Infrastructure-as-Code

• Monitoring systems

• Deployment automation

• Strong understanding of

• Cloud networking

• System reliability

• Production infrastructure

Nice to Have

• Strong Terraform or Pulumi expertise

• Experience in

• SaaS

• Fintech

• Healthcare

• Enterprise applications

• Exposure to

• Serverless architecture

• AWS Lambda

• Cloud Functions

• Cloud or DevOps certifications

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

• CKA

• Kubernetes certifications

What a Typical Day Looks Like

• Monitor infrastructure and production systems
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Provision or modify infrastructure with Terraform
• Troubleshoot deployment or performance issues
• Collaborate with developers on scaling and reliability
• Review logs, alerts, and system metrics
• Update documentation and operational runbooks

In short: You ensure infrastructure stays automated, scalable, secure, and reliable while enabling fast and safe product delivery.

Key Metrics (KPIs)

• Deployment speed and reliability
• System uptime (99.9%+ target)
• Reduced incident recovery time (MTTR)
• Infrastructure cost optimization
• Developer satisfaction with deployment workflows
• Automation and operational efficiency improvements

Why This Role Stands Out

• High ownership over cloud infrastructure and automation
• Work on modern DevOps and Kubernetes environments
• Direct impact on scalability and engineering velocity

• Opportunity to grow into

• Senior DevOps Engineer

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• Cloud Infrastructure Architect
• Remote flexibility with strong technical exposure

Interview Process

• Initial Phone Screen
• Video Interview with Pavago Recruiter
• Technical Task (CI/CD or Terraform-based assessment)
• Client Interview with Engineering Leadership
• Offer & Background Verification

Apply Now

If you:

• Enjoy infrastructure automation and cloud engineering
• Have strong DevOps and CI/CD experience
• Thrive in reliability-focused environments
• Want ownership over scalable cloud systems

This role is a strong fit for experienced DevOps and infrastructure professionals.