Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer

About the Role

Working at Tech Holding isn't just a job, it's an opportunity to be a part of something bigger. We are a full-service consulting firm that was founded on the premise of delivering predictable outcomes and high-quality solutions to our clients. Our founders and team members have industry experience and have held senior positions in a wide variety of companies – from emerging startups to large Fortune 50 firms – and we have taken our combined experiences and developed a unique approach that is supported by the principles of deep expertise, integrity, transparency, and dependability.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure (40%)
• Design and maintain AWS infrastructure.
• Manage containerized deployments (Docker, potentially ECS or Kubernetes).
• Set up and maintain PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Configure networking, security groups, and access controls.
• Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform or Pulumi).
• Manage secrets and environment configuration.

• CI/CD & Automation (30%)
• Build and maintain Actions pipelines.
• Automate testing, building, and deployment.
• Implement staging and production environments.
• Set up automated database migrations.
• Create deployment rollback procedures.

• Reliability & Monitoring (20%)
• Set up logging and monitoring (CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar).
• Configure alerting.
• Implement backup and disaster recovery.
• Monitor and optimize costs.
• Ensure security best practices.

• Developer Support (10%)
• Troubleshoot production issues.
• Support developers with environment setup.
• Document infrastructure and processes.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of DevOps, Systems, or SRE experience
• Strong experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM at minimum)
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Experience with PostgreSQL administration (backups, monitoring, basic tuning)
• Experience with Linux server administration
• Understanding of networking and security fundamentals
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or CDK)
• Comfortable communicating in English (written and verbal async-first team)
• Available to overlap 4+ hours with US Eastern time

Strongly Preferred Skills

• Experience with Terraform specifically
• Experience with container orchestration at scale (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes)
• Experience with Python (for scripting and understanding application code)
• Experience with Redis administration
• Experience with Celery or background task queue infrastructure
• Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Experience with cost optimization on AWS

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience with CDN configuration (CloudFront, Cloudflare)
• Experience with LLM API infrastructure (rate limiting, caching, cost tracking)
• Experience with geographic data serving (tile servers, PostGIS)
• Security certifications or strong security background
• Experience with Stripe webhook infrastructure

What we offer

Fully remote engagement across MX. Opportunity to work on high-impact client systems with real operational ownership.