DevOps Engineer

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer

Core Responsibilities

Infrastructure Ownership

• Manage and support a mixed server environment, keeping critical systems stable and performant under real production load
• Troubleshoot across the stack (OS, network, and application layers) rather than staying confined to one layer
• Support web-facing and application services, working closely with the teams that build and run them
• Configure and tune web-facing infrastructure such as reverse proxies and load balancers, and tune the underlying Linux (Ubuntu / RHEL) OS and network stack to handle high-concurrency production traffic

Testing & Quality Systems

• Help build out a testing ecosystem for development systems, including automated testing approaches for catching errors and validating performance under load
• Bring a quality mindset to changes and deployments — thinking about how something could fail before it does, not just reacting when it does

Automation & Reliability

• Build and maintain automation to reduce manual work and improve consistency across environments
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment workflows, and help streamline how changes get shipped safely
• Monitor system health and proactively address issues before they become incidents

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work directly with developers, architects, and other infrastructure teams as a hands-on partner, not just a ticket queue
• Translate operational needs into practical solutions, documenting standards and repeatable processes along the way
• Support cloud-based infrastructure alongside on-prem systems as the environment evolves

Security & Stability

• Apply sound security and hardening practices as part of day-to-day operations
• Support messaging, data, and integration services that other systems depend on

Qualifications

• Working familiarity with Linux administration, paired with broader infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering experience
• Track record of designing, standardizing, or migrating systems and processes rather than executing existing runbooks or procedures
• Exposure to web applications and the teams that build them, including direct collaboration with developers supporting a live application
• Experience building or contributing to automated testing (load testing, error/regression detection, CI/CD test integration) is a strong plus
• Comfortable working across infrastructure, cloud, and application-adjacent responsibilities
• Experience owning systems end-to-end
• Reasons through unfamiliar or ambiguous issues rather than defaulting to established process or template
• Strong communicator who can work directly with both infrastructure and development teams