Devops Engineer

• Appendix A: Job Description for the US-Based DevOps / Platform
• US SHIFT - 10 PM TO 6.00AM

Engineer

• Type: Full-time, Reports to: Engineering leadership
• Role summary
• Own and operate AWS production infrastructure in close partnership with the existing
• offshore DevOps engineer, providing near-around-the-clock coverage for a consumer
• automotive platform (inventory search, dealer tools, AI-led negotiation) running on AWS,
• Cloudflare, and Vercel.

Key responsibilities

• Own AWS infrastructure end to end, including compute, networking, load balancing,

• CDN, and identity/access management, across a multi-service production environment
• built on modern web frameworks and a dedicated search infrastructure.

• Lead the rollout and ongoing maturation of CI/CD pipelines across all production

services.

• Drive edge infrastructure simplification, including evaluating and migrating routing and

traffic-management approaches as the architecture evolves.

• Build out production-grade monitoring, alerting, and incident-response tooling, and

participate in the on-call rotation.

• Own ongoing cloud cost optimization (FinOps), proactively identifying and eliminating

waste across compute, storage, and networking resources.

• Operate and tune production search infrastructure, including scaling procedures to

handle traffic surges.

• Continuously review and tighten access-control policies across the environment to

reduce overall risk exposure.

• Partner with engineering and data teams on deploys, incident response, and overall

• security posture, including dependency scanning, secrets management, and uptime
• monitoring.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience: EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, ALB/ELB, CloudFront,

CodeBuild/CodeDeploy.

• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or

equivalent).

• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL administration; MySQL familiarity a plus.
• Scripting proficiency in Python and/or Bash for automation and operational tooling.
• Experience owning production on-call responsibilities and building observability/alerting

from the ground up.

• Comfortable working in a tightly-coupled, follow-the-sun pairing with an offshore

counterpart.

• Cost-conscious mindset; direct cloud cost optimization experience a plus.

Nice to have

• Experience with Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, Workers).
• Experience with search infrastructure (Typesense, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or

similar).

• Experience with Airflow or comparable workflow orchestration.
• Exposure to AI/LLM API cost-management tooling or routing layers.