Devops Engineer

Appendix A: Job Description for the US-Based DevOps / Platform

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.