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 aDevOps 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.