DevOps Engineer

Cobden & Carter International; Philippines; Remote; PHP 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech recruitment company based in the Philippines is seeking a remote DevOps engineer with over 5 years of experience in managing production systems. Candidates should have hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, AWS services, and CI/CD pipelines. Strong scripting skills and a solid understanding of security practices are crucial. This position involves designing scalable infrastructure and collaborating with teams to enhance deployment processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role supporting production systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience managing containerized applications using Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and how they integrate.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Deep understanding of systems observability techniques.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems.
• Familiarity with security best practices.
• Proactive communicator in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support scalable infrastructure.
• Manage container orchestration systems focusing on Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain automation for deployment and lifecycle management.
• Improve CI/CD processes with software teams.
• Monitor system availability and performance.
• Develop tools to enhance operational efficiency.
• Participate in incident response and remediation.
• Guide infrastructure design decisions.
• Stay informed on industry trends and integrate into operations.
• Champion security and cost-efficiency in infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS services

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Systems observability

Security best practices

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS EKS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support scalable, reliable infrastructure to power production and development environments.
• Manage and enhance our container orchestration systems, with a focus on Kubernetes (EKS), while maintaining a balanced view of other critical AWS services such as EC2, ALB, IAM, and VPC networking.
• Build and maintain automation for application and infrastructure deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes across CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor and improve system availability, latency, and performance across the full stack from cloud infrastructure to backend services.
• Develop internal tools and scripts to enhance operational efficiency, resilience, and security.
• Play a key role in incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• Participate in architecture reviews and help guide decisions on infrastructure design, resilience, and observability.
• Stay informed on industry trends in reliability engineering, cloud-native tooling, and DevOps practices, and integrate improvements into our operational playbook.
• Champion security, scalability, and cost-efficiency in all infrastructure decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role supporting production systems at scale.
• Hands‑on experience managing containerized applications using Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS, but with understanding of broader infrastructure ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and how they integrate to support modern cloud architectures.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, and configuration management tools.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages, used for automation and tooling.
• Deep understanding of systems observability, including logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, including performance bottlenecks and availability challenges.
• Familiarity with security best practices for cloud and containerized environments.
• Clear and proactive communicator, comfortable working cross‑functionally in a fast‑paced environment.

Set up: Remote

Shift: Night Shift

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