Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Foundations

What you'll own

• A monorepo structure with clear conventions for all services.
• A fully working example service that shows developers how everything should be built and deployed.
• Terraform modules for all infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM).
• CI/CD pipelines that define the standard path from build → test → deploy.
• Docker image standards and ECS/Fargate deployment patterns.
• Secret management (IAM, KMS, SSM/Secrets Manager), you control and maintain secure keys.
• Baseline monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting for all services.
• Documentation and runbooks that make onboarding and scaling easy.

Requirements

• AWS expert: VPC, IAM, ALB, CloudWatch, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Secrets Manager.
• Terraform expert: authored modules, complex state mgmt, multi-environment design.
• CI/CD builder: pipelines designed or rebuilt from scratch (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Docker + ECS: deployed containers with autoscaling, health checks, log routing.
• Ability to set up basic monitoring, logs, metrics, and alerts for ECS-based services (CloudWatch preferred).
• Experience maintaining a monorepo or creating deployment boilerplate/templates.
• Strong experience with secret and key management (IAM policies, KMS, SSM).

Nice to have

• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or CloudWatch dashboards.
• Background in security hardening, IAM least-privilege, and image scanning.
• Prior startup or high-growth experience.
• Cost optimization experience on AWS.

Additional Information

• 1-year contract with extensions based on performance
• Competitive USD hourly rates aligned to experience
• Remote in Latin America (EST)