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.