Cloud-Focused DevOps Engineer II

MerchantE; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

MerchantE seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer II to design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure across a global environment. You will work hands-on with AWS, IaC and CI/CD, partnering with senior engineers on platform architecture and strategy.

You will collaborate with development, security, and infra teams to ensure high availability, observability, and efficient operations, including AI-enabled tooling and automation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Support AWS networking configurations, including VPCs, routing, VPNs, security groups, and hybrid connectivity.
• Monitor platform health, performance, reliability, and security; resolve complex operational issues.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues across development, staging, and production environments.
• Apply AI-enabled operational tools and automation to improve monitoring, incident triage, troubleshooting, documentation, and platform reliability.
• Support the evaluation and adoption of AWS AI services or other AI-assisted capabilities that improve engineering efficiency and operational outcomes.
• Support payment systems and business-critical services with a focus on uptime and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to improve platform capabilities and deployment processes.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute technical recommendations and help guide less-experienced team members as needed.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS cloud

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Docker

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

AI-assisted tooling

Troubleshooting

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

MerchantE seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer II to design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure across a global environment. You will work hands-on with AWS, IaC and CI/CD, partnering with senior engineers on platform architecture and strategy.

You will collaborate with development, security, and infra teams to ensure high availability, observability, and efficient operations, including AI-enabled tooling and automation.