Solo DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & AI Infra

Salvo Software; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Salvo Software is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own cloud environments, delivery pipelines, and AI infrastructure in a solo contributor role. You will be the foundational expert enabling high-performance, secure infrastructure for our distributed teams.

This position focuses on CI/CD, automation, cloud architecture, security, and AI systems end to end. You will design, implement, and optimize cloud platforms across AWS, GCP, or Azure, with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD tools.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a DevOps or Cloud Engineering role.
• Hands-on with AWS, GCP, or Azure architecture, cost optimization, and security.
• Proven experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Experience designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting in Python or Bash.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and DevSecOps.
• Experience deploying AI/ML systems or LLM tooling.
• Ability to guide infrastructure strategy while remaining hands-on.
• Comfortable supporting a global team across time zones (US, Latin America, India).

Responsibilities

• As the sole owner of cloud environments, you will design and optimize AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Manage IaC via Terraform or similar, ensuring reproducible environments.
• Oversee Docker and Kubernetes for scalable deployment.
• Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Enforce cloud security and access control with least-privilege.
• Monitor cloud spend and right-size resources.
• Set up AI/ML tooling to support automation initiatives.
• Develop automation scripts in Python or Bash.
• Define infrastructure strategy and roadmaps for the company.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Engineering

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automation

Python

Bash

DevSecOps

AI/ML systems

LLM tooling

IAM

Cost optimization

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

AWS

GCP

Azure

Python

Bash

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Salvo Software is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own cloud environments, delivery pipelines, and AI infrastructure in a solo contributor role. You will be the foundational expert enabling high-performance, secure infrastructure for our distributed teams.

This position focuses on CI/CD, automation, cloud architecture, security, and AI systems end to end. You will design, implement, and optimize cloud platforms across AWS, GCP, or Azure, with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD tools.