DevOps Engineer

Clevanoo LLC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to professionalize and stabilize their AWS environment. The role involves documenting the existing serverless architecture, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and establishing DevOps best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Solo consultant working directly with Kyle Allen (VP/GM) to professionalize and stabilize a 'duct-tape' AWS environment before it becomes permanent infrastructure
• Phase 1 — Discovery & Documentation (heaviest lift, up front): Reverse-engineer the current serverless AWS environment and document what exists and how the components interact with each other
• Phase 2 — Build & Execute: Stand up GitHub as the single source of truth for the codebase (code repository), Implement a CI/CD pipeline, Introduce IaC (greenfield — nothing in place today), Establish controls and DevOps best practices
• Operates slightly outside daily business ops — 'living on an island,' partnering with Kyle to drive the project forward rather than carrying day-to-day dev load
• Must work with SOC 2 in mind for any reconfiguration (Parlay is mid-certification via an outside firm), but is not responsible for leading compliance work
• Definition of done: Documented environment + GitHub repo as source of truth + CI/CD pipeline and IaC foundation stood up

Requirements:

• AWS serverless depth — hands-on with Lambda, RDS, and DynamoDB in a production event-driven environment
• Event-driven architecture fluency — comfortable with the core pattern: AWS Transfer Family (SFTP) → event triggers → data processing → load to RDS via Lambdas; moving data between clients and 3rd-party systems
• GitHub + CI/CD pipeline implementation — must have built this from the ground up before
• Python — primary language of the environment; must be strong here
• Startup-generalist mindset — owns everything end-to-end, self-directed, minimal hand-holding; not an enterprise specialist who needs a defined lane
• Documentation discipline — able to walk into an undocumented environment and produce clear, durable documentation
• IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK) — greenfield, so transferable is fine, but prior IaC buildout experience is a real differentiator
• C# / .NET — some client work was farmed out in C#; Kyle doesn't know it and would value help understanding it
• SOC 2 familiarity — operating in a compliance-conscious environment
• AWS certs (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer Pro) — plus, not required