DevOps Engineer

About The Role

We’re looking for a hands-on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building systems that run reliably in production. 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.

What We Care About

• Your understanding of our platform.
• Your approach towards client satisfaction.
• Your ability to design and operate systems that don’t fall over.
• Your instinct to determine what to automate and when to automate.
• Your understanding of how systems behave under real traffic.
• Your willingness to take ownership when production breaks.
• Your ability to debug calmly, fix permanently, and document clearly.
• Your flexibility and agility.

If you’ve learned these skills through startups, side projects, homelabs, open source, or real production failures — you’re qualified.

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.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Required Skill Set

• 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.

Strong Plus

• 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.

Mindset

• High ownership and accountability.
• Comfort working in ambiguity.
• Automation-first thinking.
• Reliability over velocity without safety.
• Strong bias toward learning from failures.