Remote Cloud DevOps Test Bench Engineer

Weekday; United States; Remote; USD 23,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday is seeking a DevOps Test Bench Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure cloud test environments across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will support automated testing and CI workflows, ensuring rapid feedback and high availability for our services in a remote-first setup.

The role emphasizes IaC, monitoring, and cost-efficient resource management, while collaborating with SRE and QA teams to improve deployment pipelines and reliability.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on cloud engineering across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Strong command of Linux system administration and shell scripting.
• Proficiency with DevOps tooling: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD orchestrators, and IaC frameworks.
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability for distributed apps.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production failures.
• Solid understanding of SRE principles including incident management and reliability engineering.
• Excellent communication and collaboration in remote, cross-functional teams.
• Balance delivery speed with security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Proactive learner eager to adopt new technologies.
• Track record delivering reliable, automated testing infrastructure to reduce release risk.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end test benches on AWS, GCP, and Azure using IaC (Terraform or Pulumi).
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and teardown of test environments using Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Integrate test benches with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Monitor system metrics, logs, and traces with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch.
• Optimize cost and performance by right-sizing, spot instances, and reserved capacity.
• Develop and maintain security hardening policies, IAM roles, and compliance checks.
• Collaborate with SRE teams on SLAs, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices in DevOps/SRE.
• Conduct capacity planning, load testing, and resilience testing.
• Document architecture, procedures, and runbooks for knowledge transfer.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Linux administration

SRE principles

Monitoring/observability

CI/CD tooling

IaC frameworks

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Weekday is seeking a DevOps Test Bench Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure cloud test environments across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will support automated testing and CI workflows, ensuring rapid feedback and high availability for our services in a remote-first setup.

The role emphasizes IaC, monitoring, and cost-efficient resource management, while collaborating with SRE and QA teams to improve deployment pipelines and reliability.