Mid-Level DevOps Engineer: Cloud Infra & SOC 2

Polara; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Polara is seeking a mid-level DevOps Engineer to help run, automate and secure the SYO platform. You will join a distributed team and support SOC 2 compliance efforts, incident response, and scalable cloud infrastructure.

You will build automated pipelines, manage IaC, and optimize observability and reliability across global deployments, partnering with developers in multiple time zones.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in DevOps, SRE or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on production experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong skills with IaC tools, ideally Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE or self-managed).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
• Scripting skills in Bash and Python, Go or PowerShell.
• Solid Linux, networking (DNS, TLS, load balancing, VPC/VNet) and Git fundamentals.
• Experience with observability tools such as Google Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging and Grafana.
• Clear written and verbal communication in English, and comfort working asynchronously with a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, security scanning and deployment.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt or similar).
• Operate containerized workloads on Kubernetes or managed container services, including scaling, upgrades and cost tuning.
• Set up and improve monitoring, logging, alerting and dashboards so you can track availability, latency and the health of device and data pipelines.
• Respond quickly to production support issues and incidents, troubleshoot and fix problems, run root-cause analysis and write blameless postmortems.
• Implement SOC 2 controls, including access management, encryption, patching and audit evidence.
• Manage backup, disaster recovery and high-availability setups, and test them against RTO/RPO targets.
• Help developers across time zones with environment setup, release coordination and troubleshooting.
• Write and maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams and operational procedures.
• Find manual toil and automate it.

Skills

Cloud infra

CI/CD knowledge

Container orchestration

SRE practices

Observability

Automation

English communication

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Bash

Python

Go

PowerShell

Linux

Networking

Grafana

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Logging

Job description

Polara is seeking a mid-level DevOps Engineer to help run, automate and secure the SYO platform. You will join a distributed team and support SOC 2 compliance efforts, incident response, and scalable cloud infrastructure.

You will build automated pipelines, manage IaC, and optimize observability and reliability across global deployments, partnering with developers in multiple time zones.