DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Deploy and manage Ruby on Rails applications in AWS and Kubernetes environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience across all production and staging systems.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across the infrastructure, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption at rest and in transit, container security scanning, and patch management.
• Monitor and analyze application and infrastructure logs (Rails logs, Kubernetes logs, AWS CloudWatch, S3 access logs, Nginx, PostgreSQL, etc.) to proactively identify, investigate, and resolve issues.
• Debug system performance bottlenecks across the stack, including slow database queries, S3 object storage latency, misconfigured Nginx or load balancers, or Rails application-level issues.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, and deployment processes with minimal downtime.
• Collaborate with developers to improve observability and instrumentation, ensuring that metrics, tracing, and logging are in place to diagnose issues quickly.
• Conduct infrastructure capacity planning to ensure resources are optimized for cost and performance as customer usage grows.
• Respond to incidents and outages, participate in root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring proper resource allocation, autoscaling, and workload distribution.
• Work with databases (PostgreSQL) to tune queries, configure backups, manage replication, and ensure reliability.
• Manage and monitor cloud storage systems (S3, EBS, etc.), ensuring secure, performant, and cost-effective use.
• Implement disaster recovery strategies, including regular testing of backups and failover processes.
• Stay current on DevOps, Rails, AWS, and Kubernetes practices and technologies, applying them to continuously improve system reliability, security, and performance.

Requirements

• Associates degree required
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a DevOps engineering role
• Advanced expertise in AWS EC2, Aurora, Postgres, Puma, NGINX, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Ruby programming language
• Extensive knowledge of Ubuntu
• Experience with Git or Mercurial, GitHub Actions/Gitlab Pipelines, and CI/CD tools
• Excellent time managing skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines
• Must possess fluent ability to communicate in English in oral and written format

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• EC2
• Kubernetes
• NGINX
• Postgres
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• 401k plan with company matching
• Paid time-off
• Flexible work hours
• Work Life Balance