Key skills
DevOpsInfrastructure architectureCI/CD pipelineInfrastructure management toolsProgramming languagesApplication developmentStartup experienceScale up experienceSoft skillsJavaScriptPythonRubyTerraformCloudFormationCI/CD
About this role
Perfect Venue is a company focused on providing local restaurants and venues with an affordable event management tool to enhance their revenue. They are seeking a Founding DevOps Engineer to design and own their platform from scratch, migrating to a new cloud environment and rebuilding their infrastructure without any legacy systems.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement our infrastructure architecture from scratch
- Rebuild our CI/CD pipeline to better scale with a growing team
- Own all infrastructure-as-code and environment provisioning
- Design our observability strategy (metrics, logs, traces, alerting)
- Establish best practices for reliability, scaling, and incident response
- Own security fundamentals (secrets, access control, production hardening)
- Partner with application engineers to create a fast, reliable developer experience
- Make foundational decisions on cloud, tooling, and architecture
- Contribute as an application developer when needed
Requirements:
- 6+ years DevOps/infrastructure
- 3+ years application development
- Experience in both startup and scale up environments
- Expertise using infrastructure management tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with programming languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript