DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We’re looking for a hands-on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building systems that run reliably in production. You’ve seen early-stage chaos, fast scale-ups, or have built serious infrastructure on your own. You understand that reliability is earned through ownership, automation, and clean engineering — not titles or years of experience. You will take approved system architecture and turn it into real, working infrastructure, translating High-Level Designs (HLD) into practical, battle-tested Low-Level Designs (LLD). This is a deeply execution-focused role. You will work on production systems every day — deploying, scaling, observing, fixing, and improving them continuously. At Smallest, infrastructure is not a support function — it is the product.

🏢 About Smallest

Smallest is a company that values hands-on execution and building reliable systems. We focus on creating infrastructure that scales and operates efficiently in production environments.

🎯 The Role

You will take approved system architecture and turn it into real, working infrastructure, translating High-Level Designs (HLD) into practical, battle-tested Low-Level Designs (LLD). This is a deeply execution-focused role. You will work on production systems every day — deploying, scaling, observing, fixing, and improving them continuously.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Implement and manage AWS-centric cloud infrastructure using Terraform
• Operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across multiple environments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Deploy services using Helm and Argo CD (GitOps)
• Implement canary, blue/green, and rolling deployments
• Build and manage Docker images and registries
• Configure monitoring, alerting, and logging using New Relic and CloudWatch
• Manage AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, ALB/NLB, security groups
• Support RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Redis, and MongoDB infrastructure
• Support frontend delivery using CloudFront and AWS Amplify
• Write automation scripts in Bash, Python, or Go
• Troubleshoot incidents and participate in postmortems

📌 Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
• CI/CD pipeline design and ownership mindset
• Production debugging and incident handling experience
• Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Startup or scale-up production exposure
• DevOps/SRE side projects or homelabs
• Open-source contributions in cloud-native ecosystem
• Experience with cost optimization and capacity planning
• Terraform-based infrastructure automation
• Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Not specified