DevOps Engineer

Closinglock; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Downtown parking included

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Closinglock seeks a DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and help power a security‑critical fintech platform that processes billions monthly. You’ll shape cloud architecture, deployment pipelines, and the observability stack alongside our Senior DevOps Engineer.

You’ll build scalable AWS infrastructure, implement IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation), and evolve containers with Docker/Kubernetes (EKS) for reliability and scale. On-call rotations and postmortems drive long‑term improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience building cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments across environments.
• Support reliability via incident response, on-call rotation, and postmortems.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve deployment times and tooling.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Tools

Datadog

CloudWatch

PagerDuty

Job description

• As a DevOps Engineer at Closinglock, you’ll be a core member of our engineering team, working alongside our Senior DevOps Engineer to build and improve the infrastructure powering a security-critical fintech platform that processes billions of dollars each month
• You’ll collaborate closely across the team to design, build, and maintain the systems that keep Closinglock reliable, secure, and fast. You’ll have a real impact on our cloud architecture, deployment pipelines, and observability stack
• Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting high availability and performance for our platform
• Help evolve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and frequent deployments across multiple environments
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, ensuring reproducibility and auditability
• Monitor system health, performance, and security using observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty) and respond to incidents with urgency and thoroughness
• Work with containerized and orchestrated workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), supporting cluster operations and scaling strategies
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve developer experience — reducing friction, improving deployment times, and contributing to self-service tooling
• Participate in an on-call rotation and contribute to incident postmortems, supporting root-cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements
• Contribute to internal documentation and runbooks so that institutional knowledge is shared and processes are repeatable

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Downtown parking included
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance