DevOps Engineer at Smallest

DEVOPS ENGINEER – STARTUP ENVIRONMENT   ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a hands-on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building systems that actually run in production — not slide decks. 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 close to 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 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 - Terraform-based infrastructure automation - Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows - Solid Linux and networking fundamentals - CI/CD pipeline design and ownership mindset - Production debugging and incident handling experience   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 - Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets   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 enjoy building infrastructure that scales, fixing real production problems, and making systems boringly reliable - this role is for you.