Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Design, oversee, maintain, and enhance cloud infrastructure to guarantee scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, offering technical guidance and fostering infrastructure enhancements.

• Identify and analyze the capacity limits of infrastructure components, including virtual machines, containers, databases, and networks.

• Develop and execute scalable solutions designed to manage billions of requests daily.

• Construct, configure, and refine monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to enhance observability and incident detection.

• Optimize system uptime while ensuring high availability, resilience, and redundancy across all architectural layers.

• Configure, sustain, upgrade, and troubleshoot servers, networks, cloud environments, and applications.

• Proactively identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks and performance challenges.

• Secure infrastructure, data, and networks to ensure business continuity and operational resilience.

• Advise on and implement new technologies, infrastructure solutions, and architectural enhancements.

• Collaborate with software developers to facilitate application deployments and drive infrastructure and software innovations.

• Establish and uphold infrastructure best practices, automation, and operational procedures.

• Investigate system limitations and collaborate with cloud providers or external systems to address capacity and scalability challenges.

• Take ownership of infrastructure initiatives, work autonomously, and promote continuous improvement in a rapidly growing environment.

• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

• Extensive practical experience in a comparable DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or cloud engineering position, ideally within a SaaS or data-driven organization.

• Profound knowledge of modern DevOps tools, infrastructure management, and automation techniques.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes; this is essential.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Sentry, Grafana, or Loki.

• Strong comprehension of server infrastructure, networking, containers, databases, and distributed systems.

• Experience in designing and maintaining highly available, scalable, and resilient production environments.

• Understanding of infrastructure security, redundancy, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.

• Proven experience in identifying infrastructure bottlenecks, troubleshooting complex production issues, and optimizing system performance.

• Demonstrated capacity to take ownership of technical projects, work independently, and make informed engineering decisions.

• Experience leading a team or providing technical leadership within an infrastructure or DevOps setting.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.

• A forward-thinking and innovative mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.

• Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving organization.

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification, or a willingness to obtain one.

• Experience in scaling high-throughput systems and distributed infrastructure for significant request volumes.

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation.

• Experience in designing monitoring systems, defining service reliability objectives, and enhancing incident response.

• Experience collaborating with external cloud providers and addressing infrastructure capacity limitations.

• Previous experience in a senior or team lead role within a growing SaaS or technology company.

• A proactive approach to mentoring colleagues, sharing insights, and enhancing engineering practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• No benefits, perks, or compensation extras are explicitly stated.

• Remote work arrangement.