Remote DevOps Engineer: CI/CD & Cloud Security

WhatConverts; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First

Immediate Impact

Health & Wellness

401k Matching

Employee Support

PTO & Flex Time

Parental Leave

Volunteer Day

Diversity & Inclusion

Remote Perks

Job summary

WhatConverts is a remote-first SaaS company delivering marketing attribution and lead-tracking insights. We seek a DevOps Engineer to move software from design into production, managing CI/CD, releases, and automation.

You will collaborate with Senior Developers and the Senior Cloud Architect on AWS, security work, and reliability improvements, building secure, scalable pipelines. Join a bootstrapped, growing team that values initiative, ownership, and concrete impact on platform reliability and

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or software delivery.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, IAM, EBS, and AMIs.
• Experience with GitHub workflows, pull requests, branching strategies, release coordination, and deployment controls.
• Familiarity with automated testing, application observability, and tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or Aikido.
• Foundational understanding of cloud security, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, IAM, and least-privilege access.
• Experience supporting structured delivery practices such as regular planning and check-ins, work tracking, and cross-functional coordination.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve CI/CD across all environments using AWS CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and launch templates.
• Coordinate releases, deployments, environments, and quarterly code-revert testing.
• Expand automated testing across synthetic monitoring, user journeys, and unit, integration, and endpoint tests.
• Strengthen observability through Datadog, CloudWatch, Real User Monitoring, and log and trace correlation.
• Define standards for error resolution, EC2 lifecycle management, and auto-scaling, recommending architectural and cost improvements while systems administration handles routine execution.
• Keep frontend and backend projects moving from design through testing and production.
• Help Senior Developers turn their plans into clear scope, milestones, and delivery schedules.
• Run planning sessions and check-ins, track progress, and surface blockers early.
• Facilitate incident response and post-mortems, and keep operational runbooks current.
• Build security into the pipeline through secret scanning, Aikido remediation, least-privilege access, and IAM hardening.
• Support security-alert triage, SOC 2 evidence collection, and vulnerability scanning, growing into penetration-test coordination over time.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud engineering

Release coordination

Observability

Security awareness

Documentation

Tools

AWS

CodePipeline

CodeDeploy

EC2

RDS

IAM

CloudWatch

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Job description

WhatConverts is a remote-first SaaS company delivering marketing attribution and lead-tracking insights. We seek a DevOps Engineer to move software from design into production, managing CI/CD, releases, and automation.

You will collaborate with Senior Developers and the Senior Cloud Architect on AWS, security work, and reliability improvements, building secure, scalable pipelines. Join a bootstrapped, growing team that values initiative, ownership, and concrete impact on platform reliability and