Senior DevOps Engineer — Remote, Flexible Hours, Growth

Bluelight; Medellín; Remote; COP 100,000,000 - 140,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous PTO

Flexible hours

Remote work

Continuing education

Certifications sponsorship

Job summary

Bluelight, a leading software consultancy, is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE engineer to join our expanding team in Medellín. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure for diverse client projects, emphasizing reliability, security, and performance.

The role requires hands-on AWS expertise, IaC, containers, CI/CD, and a proactive, customer-focused mindset. You will collaborate with US-based clients, overlap hours, and contribute to implementing best practices across complex

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or DevSecOps roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, S3).
• Experience operating Aurora/PostgreSQL in production, incl. multi-AZ, read replicas, lag monitoring.
• IaC experience: Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Docker/ECS/Fargate containerization experience.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Deployment automation and rollback drills.
• Observability tooling (OpenTelemetry/CloudWatch).
• Load testing (k6) and latency/error budgets.
• Security-first mindset: vulnerability scanning, secrets management, compliance.
• SOC 2 audit evidence support and client security reviews.
• Incident response, on-call rotations, root-cause analysis.
• Experience with large, complex systems.
• Ability to overlap US business hours.
• Extreme ownership and accountability for deliverables.
• Client-focused dedication to team commitments.
• Best practices knowledge and adherence.
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• Meticulous attention to detail.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Security practices

Incident response

On-call rotations

Overlap US hours

Communication

Problem solving

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS (ECS/Fargate)

RDS/Aurora

ALB, VPC

IAM

CloudWatch

KMS

S3

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

OpenTelemetry

k6

Job description

Bluelight, a leading software consultancy, is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE engineer to join our expanding team in Medellín. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure for diverse client projects, emphasizing reliability, security, and performance.

The role requires hands-on AWS expertise, IaC, containers, CI/CD, and a proactive, customer-focused mindset. You will collaborate with US-based clients, overlap hours, and contribute to implementing best practices across complex