Devops Engineer

Appendix A: Job Description for the US-Based DevOps / Platform US SHIFT - 10 PM TO 6.00AM Engineer Type: Full-time, Reports to: Engineering leadership Role summary Own and operate AWS production infrastructure in close partnership with the existing offshore DevOps engineer, providing near-around-the-clock coverage for a consumer automotive platform (inventory search, dealer tools, AI-led negotiation) running on AWS, Cloudflare, and Vercel. Key responsibilities - Own AWS infrastructure end to end, including compute, networking, load balancing, CDN, and identity/access management, across a multi-service production environment built on modern web frameworks and a dedicated search infrastructure. - Lead the rollout and ongoing maturation of CI/CD pipelines across all production services. - Drive edge infrastructure simplification, including evaluating and migrating routing and traffic-management approaches as the architecture evolves. - Build out production-grade monitoring, alerting, and incident-response tooling, and participate in the on-call rotation. - Own ongoing cloud cost optimization (FinOps), proactively identifying and eliminating waste across compute, storage, and networking resources. - Operate and tune production search infrastructure, including scaling procedures to handle traffic surges. - Continuously review and tighten access-control policies across the environment to reduce overall risk exposure. - Partner with engineering and data teams on deploys, incident response, and overall security posture, including dependency scanning, secrets management, and uptime monitoring. Qualifications - 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience: EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, ALB/ELB, CloudFront, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy. - Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent). - Working knowledge of PostgreSQL administration; MySQL familiarity a plus. - Scripting proficiency in Python and/or Bash for automation and operational tooling. - Experience owning production on-call responsibilities and building observability/alerting from the ground up. - Comfortable working in a tightly-coupled, follow-the-sun pairing with an offshore counterpart. - Cost-conscious mindset; direct cloud cost optimization experience a plus. Nice to have - Experience with Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, Workers). - Experience with search infrastructure (Typesense, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar). - Experience with Airflow or comparable workflow orchestration. - Exposure to AI/LLM API cost-management tooling or routing layers.