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At Smart Working, we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being.
Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally.
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About the role
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, operating, and scaling a cloud-native infrastructure that supports a large, enterprise-grade SaaS platform. Working in a fully remote, async-first environment, you’ll help ensure high availability, security, and performance across production and customer-specific environments.
You’ll work hands-on with modern cloud services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, and observability tooling, partnering closely with engineering teams to enable reliable, scalable product delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform across multiple environments (production, staging, sandbox, customer deployments).
- Manage and operate cloud services across Google Cloud Platform and AWS, including containerized and serverless workloads.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, and automated Terraform workflows.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules and manage infrastructure using GitOps principles.
- Administer data infrastructure including MongoDB Atlas, Redis, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability using tools such as Google Cloud Monitoring, Sentry, Cloud Logging, and OpenTelemetry.
- Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term preventative improvements.
- Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure, networking, and access control.
- Collaborate with software engineers on performance optimisation, scalability, and deployment strategies.
- Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Mentor team members and promote DevOps best practices across the engineering organisation.
Requirements
- 5 years of hands-on DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering experience in production cloud environments.
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform, including services such as: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GKE, VPC networking, Load Balancers, Cloud Armor, IAM, Secret Manager, and security services
- Advanced experience with Terraform, including: Infrastructure as Code for multi-environment systems, Module development, state management, and Terraform Cloud workflows
- Experience with container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes or serverless container platforms.
- Strong CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Experience administering MongoDB Atlas, including replication, backups, performance tuning, and network configuration.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and tooling.
- Solid understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability in cloud-native systems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a fully remote, async-first team.
Nice to have
- Experience working with both GCP and AWS in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
- Exposure to GitOps tooling and practices.
- Experience implementing distributed tracing and advanced APM solutions.
- Familiarity with Datadog or similar monitoring platforms.
- Experience supporting high-scale SaaS platforms with customer-specific deployments.
- Interest in improving developer experience through tooling, automation, and platform improvements.
Benefits
- Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
- No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
- Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
- Support That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
- True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued
At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire.
Be a Smart Worker - valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.
If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to hear your story.
