DevOps / Platform Engineer (Senior)

MicroSourcing International; Cebu City; Remote; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage on day one

Group life insurance

Performance bonuses

Paid time-off with cash conversion

Job summary

MicroSourcing International seeks a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to own and improve production AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC automation in a remote, night-shift role from Cebu. You will strengthen workflows, ensure reliability, and drive observability across services.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to resolve incidents, implement secure configurations, and automate repeatable tasks while supporting critical data stores and managed services in a

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating production systems on AWS.
• Experience with container deployments and ECS/Fargate.
• Proficient in CI/CD design, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Experience with IaC: Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Pulumi.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve production AWS infrastructure and related services.
• Strengthen GitHub Actions and container release workflows for reliability.
• Automate provisioning with IaC tools like Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation or Pulumi.
• Improve observability with CloudWatch, logs, metrics, dashboards, runbooks.
• Support PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, backups and migrations.
• Enhance cloud security with IAM, secrets management, least privilege.
• Automate developer workflows and recurring infra tasks.
• Troubleshoot production issues across AWS, queues, networks, and databases.
• Lead incident resolution and drive preventive improvements.

Skills

Reliability mindset

Analytical thinking

Tools

AWS

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Pulumi

CloudWatch

PostgreSQL

ElastiCache

SQS

Redis

ECS/Fargate

ECR

IAM/OIDC

Python

Job description

Discover your 100% YOU with MicroSourcing!

Position: Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Location: Cebu

Work setup & shift: Remote | Night shift

Why join MicroSourcing?

You'll Have

• Competitive Rewards: Enjoy above-market compensation, healthcare coverage on day one, plus one or more dependents, paid time-off with cash conversion, group life insurance, and performance bonuses
• A Collaborative Spirit: Contribute to a positive and engaging work environment by participating in company-sponsored events and activities.
• Work-Life Harmony: Enjoy the balance between work and life that suits you with flexible work arrangements.
• Career Growth: Take advantage of opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.
• Inclusive Teamwork: Be part of a team that celebrates diversity and fosters an inclusive culture.

Your Role

As a Sr. DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will:

• Own and improve production and staging AWS infrastructure supporting applications, workers, queues, databases, caching, storage, secrets, logging, and scheduled workloads.
• Strengthen GitHub Actions and container release workflows to make builds, tests, migrations, configuration changes, deployments, and rollbacks predictable and reliable.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure risks, single points of failure, fragile dependencies, stuck jobs, and weak queue or retry behavior.
• Build and maintain CloudWatch logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, health checks, and runbooks to improve system observability and incident response.
• Support PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, backups, restore procedures, database connections, migrations, and safe production changes.
• Strengthen cloud security through IAM roles and policies, secrets management, secure authentication, least-privilege access, network controls, and environment separation.
• Automate developer and operational workflows, including environment setup, deployment checks, diagnostics, validation, and recurring infrastructure tasks.
• Troubleshoot production issues across application logs, AWS infrastructure, queues, networks, databases, and external services.
• Use AI engineering tools to inspect unfamiliar infrastructure, generate and review scripts and IaC, investigate logs, improve CI/CD workflows, draft runbooks, and automate repetitive operational work.
• Lead incident resolution from initial detection through diagnosis, remediation, root-cause analysis, and preventative improvements.

What You Need

Non-negotiables

• Strong hands-on experience operating production systems on AWS, including compute/containers, networking, IAM, logging, databases, queues, and managed services.
• Practical experience with Docker and production container deployments, with ECS/Fargate or comparable container orchestration experience.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent tools.
• Strong Linux, shell scripting, and infrastructure automation skills, with sufficient Python proficiency to build operational tools and collaborate with application engineers.
• Experience with production observability, including logs, metrics, alerts, health checks, dashboards, and incident diagnostics.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and operational requirements such as backups, restores, database connections, migrations, capacity, and safe production changes.
• Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, secrets management, least privilege, environment isolation, and secure CI/CD credentials.
• Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GPT/ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable platforms.
• Strong reliability mindset with the ability to identify manual processes, hidden dependencies, weak failure handling, and recovery risks.
• Experience with SQS, Redis, distributed/background workers, schedulers, retries, dead-letter queues, and asynchronous systems.
• Experience operating Python/Flask applications and understanding application-level failure modes.
• Experience with AWS RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, IAM/OIDC, and backup/restore processes.
• Experience handling production incidents and developing runbooks, release checklists, disaster-recovery procedures, and preventative improvements.
• Experience working in healthcare, HIPAA-regulated, security-sensitive, or other high-trust production environments.

Preferred Skills/expertise

• Experience building highly available and fault-tolerant AWS architectures.
• Experience implementing blue-green, rolling, canary, or similarly controlled deployment strategies.
• Experience with Terraform modules, reusable IaC patterns, state management, and infrastructure drift prevention.
• Experience with AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, DNS, VPNs, and private connectivity.
• Experience implementing centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Experience with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Config, or comparable security and monitoring services.
• Experience with container registries, image security, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability management.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning, backup validation, restore testing, RTO/RPO planning, and business continuity.
• Experience supporting AI/LLM platforms, voice AI systems, API-heavy applications, or other distributed production workloads.
• Experience with healthcare integrations, EHR/FHIR systems, HIPAA controls, or other regulated technology environments.
• Experience improving developer experience through deployment automation, self-service tooling, environment automation, and operational documentation.

About MicroSourcing

With over 9,000 professionals across 13 delivery centers, MicroSourcing is the pioneer and largest offshore provider of managed services in the Philippines.

Our commitment to 100% YOU

MicroSourcing firmly believes that our company's strength lies in our people's diversity and talent. We are proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces individuals of all races, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and backgrounds. We provide space for everyone, embracing different perspectives, and making room for opportunities for each individual to thrive.

At MicroSourcing, equality is not merely a slogan - it's our commitment. Our way of life. Here, we don't just accept your unique authentic self - we celebrate it, valuing every individual's contribution to our collective success and growth. Join us in celebrating YOU and your 100%!

For more information, visit https://www.microsourcing.com/

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