Remote DevOps Cloud Engineer

Were hiring a DevOps / Cloud Engineer to own how we build deploy and run production CI/CD cloud observability not product features and not the web UI.

• Flexible Title: Can tailor to reflect your skills & experience.
• Flexible Time: Can do full-time part-time side-gig (off-hours) or fractional (contract).
• Flexible Commitment: Can do short-term long-term or intermittent.
• Infra is the job. If you want to ship product tickets in React or own application features our software-developer postings are the ones to apply to not this one.

Why so flexible Were a FUNDED startup racing to launch end of Q3 2026. That gives us just 3 months to stack features while raising additional working capital. Feel free to jump in help us ship then bounce >> or stick around. A successful launch translates into lots of permanent jobs for those that want them. Were also interested in long-term side gig relationships if thats what youre intoin our experience a few expert hours often beat full-time learning-curve hours.

Were a credible funded remote-first startup backed by a growing team. Were pre-launch and moving fast.

This is the infra seat our product-engineering postings point away from. You will not be picking up feature tickets owning the frontend or being the full-stack person who also knows AWS.

We need someone who has already run cloud in production: pipelines that ship safely environments that dont rot IAM that isnt a mess and the ability to tell why its down before the rest of the team guesses. Youll own CI/CD our cloud account(s) deploys monitoring and the boring reliability work that makes launch possible.

This is ideal for someone with 36 years in DevOps SRE or cloud engineering who wants to own the platform at a small startup without becoming an application developer.

Youll answer: Can we deploy on Friday without fear Do we know when production is sick Whats the smallest amount of infra that gets us to launch without a pile of tickets later

Up to $150000 max total annual compensation in Tier 1 cities; cash and equity components to be negotiated. Given the flexible commitment model comp will be structured accordingly fractional or hourly arrangements welcome.

• Youve mapped how we build deploy and run today and delivered a clear read on risk (secrets single points of failure only this person knows)
• Youve shipped at least one real improvement: pipeline environment monitoring or a painful manual step made automatic
• You can deploy and roll back without tribal knowledge
• Youve stood up (or cleaned up) the signals well actually look at deploys errors saturation
• The team treats you as the default for is production okay and how does this get to prod

• Own CI/CD builds tests deploys and rollbacks that the product team can use without you in the loop every time
• Run the cloud AWS GCP or Azure: compute networking storage IAM and cost that isnt on fire
• Infrastructure as code Terraform CloudFormation or equivalent; click-ops is the exception not the system
• Observe production logs metrics alerts that mean something and the first 15 minutes of an incident
• Harden the path to launch secrets backups staging vs prod and the minimum reliability bar
• Unblock deploys when a release is stuck youre the person who knows the pipeline not the feature

Must-haves:

• 36 years in DevOps SRE platform or cloud engineering with production systems you were on the hook for
• Hands-on with at least one major cloud (AWS GCP or Azure) IAM networking and shipping to it not just I took a course
• Youve owned or substantially run CI/CD (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Circle Jenkins or similar)
• Infrastructure as code in anger (Terraform Pulumi CDK CloudFormation or equivalent)
• You can debug a failing deploy and a sick service not just write YAML that worked once
• Strong async communicator you document how prod works so the company isnt a single point of failure

Nice-to-have:

• Kubernetes containers and the judgment of when not to use them at our stage
• Observability stack experience (Datadog Grafana CloudWatch OpenTelemetry or similar)
• A GitHub repo or write-up of infra youve actually run
• Comfortable in fast-moving ambiguous environments

• Not a product / feature developer you dont own the web UI iOS app or application tickets; those are separate postings
• Not a junior software developer we need someone who has already run cloud and pipelines in production
• Not a I can also do DevOps full-stack hire infra is the whole job
• Not a 24/7 NOC or helpdesk role youll be on the hook for production not password resets