DevOps Engineer/IT

Vitalacy, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive compensation package

Pre-IPO stock options

Health insurance

Casual office environment

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform. The role involves building internal tools for enhanced developer workflows and acting as the primary contact for IT support. Candidates should have over three years of experience in DevOps, solid scripting skills, and familiarity with CI/CD tools. The position offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary and health insurance, in a casual office environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps, infrastructure, or cloud engineering experience.
• Deep experience using Terraform (or Pulumi / CloudFormation) for infrastructure management.
• Solid scripting or programming ability (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure primarily via Terraform.
• Research, evaluate, and build internal tooling for improved workflows.
• Act as a point of contact for internal IT tickets.

Skills

DevOps experience

Terraform

Scripting (Python, Go, Bash)

CI/CD tools

Monitoring and logging

Troubleshooting skills

Comfortable in a small team

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure primarily via Terraform (or equivalent IaC)
• Define reusable Terraform modules, enforce best practices, version control of infra definitions
• Provision, scale, and optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability
• Monitor, alert, and troubleshoot production issues
• Conduct architectural/technical reviews for new services or components

Developer Productivity & AI Tooling / Automation

• Research, evaluate, and build internal tooling, including AI/ML-based automations, to improve developer workflows
• Implement AI assistants, code generation helpers, internal bots, or scripts to reduce manual toil
• Integrate these tools into CI/CD pipelines or developer environments
• Survey and evaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and platforms to bring efficiencies

IT Help Desk & Internal Support

• Act as a point of contact for internal IT tickets (hardware, software, access issues)
• Troubleshoot and resolve light support requests (user accounts, VPN, workstation, network)
• Collaborate with external vendors when needed
• Maintain internal documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks

Additional / Strategic

• Participate in system design conversations (especially around scale, security, reliability)
• Implement and enforce security, compliance, and governance guardrails in infrastructure
• Assist with disaster recovery, backup strategies, and capacity planning
• Mentor and share best practices with junior engineers
• Be proactive in identifying gaps, suggesting improvements, and executing them

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands‑on DevOps, infrastructure, or cloud engineering experience
• Deep experience using Terraform (or Pulumi / CloudFormation) for infrastructure management
• Solid scripting or programming ability (Python, Go, Bash, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Good troubleshooting skills (networking, OS, distributed systems)
• Comfortable working in a small but growing team; able to wear multiple hats

Preferred / Advantageous Skills

• Prior work with AI / ML tooling / MLops or automating internal tooling
• Experience with container orchestration (EKS, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of security best practices (IAM policies, least privilege, encryption)
• Experience with scaling, high availability, disaster recovery
• Exposure to infrastructure cost optimization
• Knowledge of internal tooling, platform engineering, or developer platform design

Compensation and Benefits: Vitalacy offers an attractive and competitive compensation package including base salary, pre‑IPO stock options, health insurance, and a casual office environment.