Sole DevOps Infra Lead — AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Botco.ai; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Botco.ai seeks a senior DevOps engineer to own our infrastructure end-to-end, ensuring uptime, scalability, and reliable deployments. You will collaborate with engineers on deployment strategy, environment management, and incident response, acting as the on-call anchor for production reliability.

This role emphasizes communication, change control, and proactive problem solving in a startup environment, with remote-first operations across the Americas and a focus on automation and best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS.
• Strong Kubernetes experience: cluster management, networking, resource configuration, troubleshooting.
• Docker proficiency — building images, optimizing layers, managing registries.
• Solid GitHub Actions experience.
• Infrastructure-as-code fluency.
• Comfortable to be the sole DevOps presence on a team.
• On-call ready: you can respond to a production incident at off-hours if needed, stay calm under pressure, and lead the resolution.
• Process-minded: you respect change control, loop in the right people before making impactful changes, and document your work as a matter of habit.
• Clear, concise communicator — you can explain an outage, a trade-off, or a migration plan to the technical VP of Engineering.
• Startup experience — you know how to prioritize ruthlessly and deliver with limited resources.
• Comfortable using AI coding assistants to accelerate infrastructure work

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure on AWS (and Azure) — architecture, provisioning, cost, and security.
• Manage and improve our Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (Docker).
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices — everything in version control, nothing snowflaked.
• Maintain and improve observability: logging (Grafana + Loki), error tracking (Sentry), alerting, and dashboards.
• Serve as the primary on-call engineer for critical production incidents.
• Partner with the engineering team on deployment strategy, environment management, and reliability improvements.
• Identify gaps proactively and bring well-reasoned recommendations to the team before acting.

Skills

DevOps expertise

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Infrastructure as Code

On-call readiness

Communication

Startup experience

AI-assisted coding

Tools

Grafana

Loki

Sentry

Job description

Botco.ai seeks a senior DevOps engineer to own our infrastructure end-to-end, ensuring uptime, scalability, and reliable deployments. You will collaborate with engineers on deployment strategy, environment management, and incident response, acting as the on-call anchor for production reliability.

This role emphasizes communication, change control, and proactive problem solving in a startup environment, with remote-first operations across the Americas and a focus on automation and best practices.