DevOps Engineer

Medici Land Governance (MLG) builds technology to help governments and people establish, record, and protect property rights. They are seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to take ownership of their cloud infrastructure, focusing on reliability, cost optimization, and scaling their platform for county governments.

Responsibilities:

• Own metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting across the platform, and build the reliability backbone behind our customer commitments
• Own GCP spend end to end: find and cut waste, rightsize workloads, set up budgets and cost dashboards, and put committed-use discounts in place
• Bring our GCP footprint (GKE clusters, Cloud SQL, networking, IAM, and storage) under version-controlled Terraform
• Own and evolve our GitLab-based pipelines and deployment workflow: GitOps-style promotion across environments, environment parity, safe rollbacks, and drift detection
• Own the technical side of our SOC 2 program end to end, working in Drata: controls, least-privilege access, secrets management, audit logging, encryption, backups, and disaster recovery
• Make it fast and safe to bring on new county customers
• Scale our document pipeline (Vertex AI / Gemini, Celery workers, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka) as volume grows
• Partner with engineers to raise the bar on reliability and self-service tooling, so the whole team ships quickly and safely
• Company device management (laptop MDM), endpoint security, and access provisioning

Requirements:

• 6+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure, with genuine ownership of production systems
• Deep, hands-on Google Cloud / GKE experience. (Strong AWS or Azure experience can transfer; we run on GCP and want someone effective on it quickly.)
• Proven cloud cost optimization / FinOps, with a track record of actually cutting cloud spend: finding and eliminating waste, rightsizing, committed-use/savings plans, and cost visibility and reporting
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, including standing it up over infrastructure that wasn't built that way to begin with
• GitLab CI/CD, or strong CI/CD experience elsewhere (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.) and comfort working in GitLab
• Solid Linux, networking, and cloud-security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, least privilege)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response, and comfort owning on-call
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and willingness to own the technical side of a SOC 2 program
• Comfort building infrastructure, observability, or compliance from an early or messy state, not only operating mature systems
• Scripting / programming in Python, Bash, or Go
• Able to operate independently, make sound infrastructure tradeoffs, and explain them clearly to technical and non-technical colleagues
• Hands-on experience taking an organization through SOC 2 Type 1/2 (or similar) and working in a compliance-heavy, regulated, or government environment
• OWASP / security-testing experience and remediation of pentest / VAPT findings
• Experience supporting AI / document-processing or data pipelines (Vertex AI, Celery, queues/streaming) at scale
• Comfort with light internal IT / device management (MDM)
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling