DevOps Engineer (Startup Environment)

About the Role

We’re looking for a hands-on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building systems that actually run in production - not slide decks.

You’ve seen early-stage chaos, fast scale-ups, or have built serious infrastructure on your own.  You understand that reliability is earned through ownership, automation, and clean engineering  not titles or years of experience.

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 close to 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 (More Than Experience)

We do not care about years of experience.

We care about:

• 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
  
• You are flexible and agile
  
• If you’ve learned these skills through startups, side projects, home labs, open source, or real production failures — you’re qualified. 
  
  

Requirements

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
  
  

Required Skill Set

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes
  
• Terraform-based infrastructure automation
  
• Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows
  
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
  
• CI/CD pipeline design and ownership mindset
  
• Production debugging and incident handling experience
  
  

Strong Plus

• Startup or scale-up production exposure
  
• DevOps/SRE side projects or home labs
  
• Open-source contributions in cloud-native ecosystem
  
• Experience with cost optimization and capacity planning
  
• Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
  
  

Mindset We Value

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

If you enjoy building infrastructure that scales, fixing real production problems, and

making systems boringly reliable — this role is for you.

Benefits