DevOps Engineer

About Hoplid

Hoplid will experience concentrated traffic spikes, especially around food-ordering periods. The DevOps Engineer will build infrastructure that keeps the platform available, secure, observable, and cost-efficient.

Role Mission

Make Hoplid deployable, observable, secure, and capable of scaling without infrastructure becoming a bottleneck or uncontrolled expense.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate production cloud infrastructure.
• Containerize services with Docker.
• Build GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Linux servers and application runtime environments.
• Configure networking, TLS, secrets, and service access.
• Operate PostgreSQL and Redis infrastructure.
• Design backups and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logs.
• Use Sentry and later Prometheus/Grafana where appropriate.
• Perform k6 load and capacity tests.
• Implement rate limits, edge protection, and secure configuration.
• Run Dependabot and Trivy security checks.
• Investigate production incidents.
• Continuously optimize infrastructure cost.

Scaling Responsibilities

• Support multiple FastAPI instances behind a load balancer.
• Identify CPU, memory, database, Redis, network, and queue bottlenecks.
• Support CDN and object-storage architecture for photos and videos.
• Separate background workloads from latency-sensitive API requests.
• Work on connection pooling, caching, and database scaling.
• Maintain staging and production environments.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Linux administration.
• Docker.
• Git/GitHub.
• CI/CD.
• Cloud infrastructure.
• Networking fundamentals.
• TLS/SSL and secrets management.
• PostgreSQL and Redis operations.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Security fundamentals.
• Load testing.
• AWS, Hetzner or comparable cloud.
• Cloudflare.
• R2/CDN.
• GitHub Actions.
• Sentry.
• Prometheus/Grafana.
• Terraform.
• Kubernetes (when genuinely required).
• k6.
• Trivy.
• Dependabot.

Primary Ownership

• Cloud infrastructure.
• CI/CD.
• Production reliability.
• Monitoring and alerting.
• Security operations.
• Backups and disaster recovery.
• Capacity planning.

Backup Responsibilities

• Debug and patch FastAPI services.
• Assist with PostgreSQL and Redis issues.
• Support backend deployment and production incidents.

Team Context

This role works closely with the Founder, Product, and Flutter engineering roles. Critical systems must always have a primary owner and a capable backup. Hoplid uses overlapping skill sets deliberately; each engineer has a clear primary profession while maintaining enough adjacent knowledge to support another engineer when required.