DevOps Engineer

OpsWerks; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Kubernetes deployment experience

Datadog monitoring

Gradle/Maven packaging

Certifications: CKA/CKAD, AWS

Job summary

OpsWerks is seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize its internal developer platform, enabling developers to build, deploy, and run applications efficiently. You will maintain CI/CD pipelines, reduce cognitive load with a unified portal, and guide self-service workflows for deployment best practices.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of hands-on DevOps experience, solid AWS knowledge, and leadership skills to influence engineering practices and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps/CI/CD experience in production across cloud environments.
• 3+ years with AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, AuroraDB, CloudWatch).
• Advanced Git workflows, code reviews and pull requests.
• Experience with Jenkins, Spinnaker, FluxCD or similar CI/CD tools.
• Experience with Kotlin/Node.js/Python/Go in building applications.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize our internal developer platform for building, deploying and running apps.
• Maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for testing and deploying code.
• Centralize tools, documentation, and access via a unified portal.
• Maintain standard self-service workflows guiding deployment best practices.
• Escalation point for user support; lead investigations and admin tasks.
• Lead documentation, reporting, data analysis and automation initiatives.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, and platform teams to improve deployment velocity and reliability.
• Serve as SME in internal developer platforms and services; influence operational strategies.
• Lead engineering projects to drive technical excellence.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS

Git

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Programming languages (Kotlin/Node.js/

Go

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Spinnaker

FluxCD

Maven/Gradle

Datadog

Job description

Job Description:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in managing and optimizing our client’s internal developer platform that enables developers to build, deploy and run application efficiently and autonomously.

Your responsibilities include:

• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Maintain and support automated pipelines for testing and deploying code efficiently.
• Developer Experience (DevEx): Reduce cognitive load by centralizing tools, documentation, and access through a unified portal.
• Managing Golden Paths: Maintain standard, self-service workflows that guide developers through best practices for deployment and management.
• Act as an escalation point for user support, leading investigations, troubleshooting, and systems administration.
• Lead creation of documentations, reporting, data analysis, and automation initiatives.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, and platform teams to improve deployment velocity, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in internal developer platforms and services, influencing operational strategies and objectives.
• Spearhead engineering projects and programs to drive technical excellence.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Proven 3 years+ hands-on experience integrating DevOps and CI/CD practices and supporting production environments across public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with the following DevOps tech stack.
• AWS - Working experience with AWS core services, such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, AuroraDB, and CloudWatch.
• Git - Advanced experience with Git workflows (branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews.
• GitOps - Hands-on experience with environment promotion strategies and configuration-as-code management.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, FluxCD or equivalent, including implementing automated testing, artifact versioning, container image management, and deployment automation.
• Experience working closely with development teams using Kotlin, Node.js, Python, or Go in building application.
• Demonstrates leadership capability, with the ability to guide peers, facilitate technical discussions, and positively influence engineering best practices and continuous improvement.

Plus points if you have:

• Hands-on experience deploying and operating workloads in Kubernetes (cluster operations, Helm deployments, troubleshooting pod/networking issue.
• Familiarity with build and packaging tools such as Maven or Gradle.
• Working experience with Datadog (metrics, logs, traces) to support monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Certifications: CKA or CKAD, AWS Associate or Professional certifications or equivalent.