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.