DevOps Engineer

Jobtailor; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Platform Engineer/DevOps to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment automation in a fast-paced environment in Washington state and Vancouver area.

You will standardize deployments, implement observability, and work with Agile teams to improve reliability and efficiency. Strong AWS/Cloudflare experience and CI/CD expertise are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or similar.
• 3–5 years of experience developing, supporting, or maintaining cloud-based apps.
• Practical experience with AWS, Cloudflare, or similar cloud platform technologies.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with PostgreSQL administration, performance tuning, or database migrations.
• Experience integrating AI‑assisted tools or automation into engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment automation.
• Standardize deployment, configuration, dependency management, and release processes.
• Design monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Identify and resolve infra and performance issues including upgrades.
• Ensure platform security practices and compliance.
• Support production systems and participate in incident response.
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA to improve delivery and efficiency.
• Partner with dev teams to improve scalability and readiness.
• Research and implement automation and AI-assisted workflows.
• Create and maintain documentation for infra and platform standards.
• Identify risks and improve resiliency through automation.
• Establish best practices for platform engineering and software delivery.
• Produce clean, scalable infrastructure code and scripts.
• Assist planning of upgrades and platform improvements.
• Continuously evaluate the platform to support growth.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Cloud engineering

Site reliability

Automation

CI/CD

Agile

PostgreSQL

Tools

AWS

Cloudflare

CI/CD Tools

Automation Scripts

AI‑Assisted Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment consistency across applications.
• Standardize deployment, configuration, dependency management, and release processes to improve reliability and repeatability.
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure platform health, performance, availability, and operational visibility.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure, deployment, application performance, dependency, and platform lifecycle issues, including technology deprecations and version upgrades.
• Ensure platform infrastructure, deployments, and engineering processes adhere to security best practices and organizational standards.
• Support production systems, troubleshoot operational issues, and participate in incident response activities.
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA to improve software delivery, release management, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with internal and external development teams to improve application scalability, deployment readiness, and operational excellence.
• Research, develop, and implement automation and AI‑assisted engineering workflows that improve team efficiency.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for infrastructure, deployments, operational procedures, and platform standards.
• Identify operational risks, reduce key‑person dependencies, and improve platform resiliency through automation and standardization.
• Establish and promote best practices for platform engineering, cloud operations, automation, and software delivery.
• Produce clean, maintainable, scalable infrastructure code, automation scripts, and platform solutions.
• Assist with planning and execution of infrastructure upgrades, platform improvements, and engineering initiatives.
• Continuously evaluate and improve the engineering platform to support future growth, scalability, and business objectives.

Requirements

• 5 years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability, or similar engineering.
• 3–5 years of experience developing, supporting, or maintaining cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
• Practical experience with AWS, Cloudflare, or similar cloud platform technologies.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with PostgreSQL administration, performance tuning, or database migration support.
• Experience integrating AI‑assisted tools or automation into engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation while ensuring adherence to security best practices. Proficient in troubleshooting operational issues and improving software delivery through collaboration and automation.

Tools & Technologies

• AWS
• Cloudflare
• CI/CD Tools
• Automation Scripts
• AI‑Assisted Tools