# DevOps Engineer

**Company:** [Octus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/octus)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $165k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, AWS, EC2, ECS, S3, Rds, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Datadog, CloudWatch, Saltstack, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-05-07

> Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with developers, SRE, and Security to ensure system reliability, scalability, and security.

## Job Description

## Core Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
- Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
- Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
- Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
- Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.

## Core Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role.
- At least 2+ years of experience with Terraform.
- Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
- Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.
- Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent.
- Excellent communication skill, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

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