DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer About the Role We’re looking for a hands-on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building systems that run reliably in production. You’ve seen early-stage chaos, fast scale-ups, or have built serious infrastructure on your own. You understand that reliability is earned through ownership, automation, and clean engineering — not titles or years of experience. You will take approved system architecture and turn it into real, working infrastructure, translating High-Level Designs (HLD) into practical, battle-tested Low-Level Designs (LLD). This is a deeply execution-focused role. You will work on production systems every day — deploying, scaling, observing, fixing, and improving them continuously. At Smallest, infrastructure is not a support function — it is the product. What We Care About (More Than Experience) We do not care about years of experience. We care about: • Your understanding of our platform. This is important. • Your approach towards client satisfaction • Your ability to design and operate systems that don’t fall over • Your instinct to determine what to automate and when to automate • Your understanding of how systems behave under real traffic • Your willingness to take ownership when production breaks • Your ability to debug calmly, fix permanently, and document clearly • You are flexible and agile If you’ve learned these skills through startups, side projects, homelabs, open source, or real production failures — you’re qualified. Key Responsibilities • Implement and manage AWS-centric cloud infrastructure using Terraform • Operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across multiple environments • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions • Deploy services using Helm and Argo CD (GitOps) • Implement canary, blue/green, and rolling deployments • Build and manage Docker images and registries • Configure monitoring, alerting, and logging using New Relic and CloudWatch • Manage AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, ALB/NLB, security groups • Support RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Redis, and MongoDB infrastructure • Support frontend delivery using CloudFront and AWS Amplify • Write automation scripts in Bash, Python, or Go • Troubleshoot incidents and participate in postmortems Required Skill Set • Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes • Solid Linux and networking fundamentals • CI/CD pipeline design and ownership mindset • Production debugging and incident handling experience • Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets Strong Plus • Startup or scale-up production exposure • DevOps/SRE side projects or homelabs • Open-source contributions in cloud-native ecosystem • Experience with cost optimization and capacity planning • Terraform-based infrastructure automation • Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows Mindset We Value • High ownership and accountability • Comfort working in ambiguity • Automation-first thinking • Reliability over velocity without safety • Strong bias toward learning from failures If you have the need for speed, action bias, enjoy building infrastructure that scales, fixing real production problems, and making systems boringly reliable — this role is for you.