We are looking for a full-time, remote Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in high-availability cloud environments. This role is heavily focused on AWS infrastructure, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipeline ownership, with an emphasis on improving reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
This position is ideal for someone who operates with an engineering mindset, takes strong ownership, and is comfortable recommending and implementing improvements across infrastructure and pipelines. You will join a shared SRE/DevOps function, working closely with engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-effective systems.
Our client is a leading energy technology company focused on digitizing fuel operations through a single, real-time platform. Their software connects people, equipment, and facilities to provide enterprise-wide visibility and data-driven insights that fuel asset optimization, improve operational efficiency, and help organizations manage risk, maintenance, and fuel logistics more effectively.
Responsibilities
* Own and improve client's AWS-based infrastructure, with a strong focus on CloudFormation templates
* Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps + AWS integrations
* Analyze and manage infrastructure costs, proactively identifying optimization opportunities
* Work closely with engineering teams to:
* Reduce their dependency on writing CloudFormation templates
* Improve deployment processes and operational efficiency
* Recommend and implement improvements across existing and new pipelines
* Ensure proper monitoring, observability, and reliability standards before production releases
* Support release processes (availability during release windows when needed)
* Build and maintain reusable infrastructure and automation modules
* Contribute to security best practices within cloud infrastructure
* Collaborate in a safe Agile environment, participating in sprints and technical discussions
Required Experience
* Excellent English communication skills
* 5+ years supporting a high-availability cloud environment in a DevOps, SRE, or Sysadmin role
* Strong, hands-on experience with AWS/Azure
* Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, particularly:
* Azure DevOps
* AWS-native tools or integrations
* Systems and Infrastructure deployment and management practices
Preferred Experience
* Extensive, detailed networking skills, including VPC, VPN, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, or DNS
* Experience provisioning, deploying, and supporting containers with Helm, Kubernetes (Kops), or Docker
* Scripting and development experience using Python, Go, or bash with associated source control
* Hands-on monitoring tool usage, including: AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar tools
* Experience with relational databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, and document stores, such as MongoDB
* Experience deploying applications in containers using Docker and Kubernetes
* Microsoft Azure Cloud experience
Additional Information:
* Knowing your ideas are heard and matter - Think Big!
* You get to own your job and be recognized for your contributions
* Work with smart and creative people
* Making mistakes is human. Let's learn from them. Be transparent!
* We recognize you as an individual no presumptions or judgment. Be the extraordinary you!
* 15 days Paid Time Off (PTO), 1 floating day, 3 sick days, and designated national holidays
* Start: ASAP
About Velozient
We are a privately held, nearshore software development company providing outsourced development resources to North American companies. Our mission is to offer development talent who enjoy taking on challenging work, want to grow their skills and experiences building software, and excel in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment. We are focused on providing world-class remote resources to work as valued client team members. If this type of opportunity excites you, then consider joining our team!