DevOps Engineer
$140,000–$160,000 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
DevOps Engineer to own and enhance Clever's infrastructure, deployment systems, and operational foundation. Responsibilities include building safer deployment paths with automated health checks and rollback plans, improving production reliability across infrastructure, data stores, queues, logs, and alerts, leading or supporting infrastructure migrations across Heroku, AWS, ECS, RDS, networking, and DNS, strengthening observability and incident response through better alerts, dashboards, escalation paths, and runbooks, defining reliability targets and production-readiness standards for critical systems, partnering with engineers on infrastructure-sensitive application work and AI-enabled workflows, supporting SOC2 and security readiness, and improving local development and staging environments for smoother onboarding and validation of changes.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering
- Strong production experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and services such as ECS, RDS, networking, IAM, DNS
- Experience operating or migrating production systems on Heroku, AWS, or similar platforms
- Deep understanding of CI/CD, deployment automation, rollback strategies, environment management, and release safety
- Strong observability and incident-response experience across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, escalation, runbooks, and post-incident learning
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, repeatable infrastructure templates, scripting, and automation
- Comfortable reading backend application code and making well-scoped backend or internal-tooling changes when infrastructure and application behavior overlap
- Strong security and access-management judgment, including secrets management, environment controls, and least-privilege patterns
- Strong ownership mindset with a bias toward action, clear follow-through, and practical systems thinking
- Clear written communication and business judgment, especially for runbooks, technical decisions, operational standards, incident follow-up, and connecting infrastructure work to company impact
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