DevOps Engineer

Deploy and manage Ruby on Rails applications in AWS and Kubernetes environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience across all production and staging systems.

Implement and maintain security best practices across the infrastructure, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption at rest and in transit, container security scanning, and patch management.

Monitor and analyze application and infrastructure logs (Rails logs, Kubernetes logs, AWS CloudWatch, S3 access logs, Nginx, PostgreSQL, etc.) to proactively identify, investigate, and resolve issues.

Debug system performance bottlenecks across the stack, including slow database queries, S3 object storage latency, misconfigured Nginx or load balancers, or Rails application-level issues.

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, and deployment processes with minimal downtime.

Collaborate with developers to improve observability and instrumentation, ensuring that metrics, tracing, and logging are in place to diagnose issues quickly.

Conduct infrastructure capacity planning to ensure resources are optimized for cost and performance as customer usage grows.

Respond to incidents and outages, participate in root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring proper resource allocation, autoscaling, and workload distribution.

Work with databases (PostgreSQL) to tune queries, configure backups, manage replication, and ensure reliability.

Manage and monitor cloud storage systems (S3, EBS, etc.), ensuring secure, performant, and cost-effective use.

Implement disaster recovery strategies, including regular testing of backups and failover processes.

Stay current on DevOps, Rails, AWS, and Kubernetes practices and technologies, applying them to continuously improve system reliability, security, and performance.

Associates degree required; Bachelor's degree in related field from an accredited college or university preferred; or equivalent education/experience in the computer science field

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a DevOps engineering role

Advanced expertise in AWS EC2, Aurora, Postgres, Puma, NGINX, and Kubernetes

Experience with Ruby programming language

Extensive knowledge of Ubuntu

Experience with Git or Mercurial, GitHub Actions/Gitlab Pipelines, and CI/CD tools

Excellent time managing skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines

Collaborative and communicative with a focus on teamwork and problem-solving.

Must possess fluent ability to communicate in English in oral and written format

Eager to learn, grow, and ask questions when needed.