DevOps Engineer
About the Role
We’re looking for a hands-on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building systems that run reliably in production.
You’ve seen early-stage chaos, fast scale-ups, or have built serious infrastructure on your own. You understand that reliability is earned through ownership, automation, and clean engineering — not titles or years of experience.
You will take approved system architecture and turn it into real, working infrastructure, translating High-Level Designs (HLD) into practical, battle-tested Low-Level Designs (LLD).
This is a deeply execution-focused role.
You will work on production systems every day — deploying, scaling, observing, fixing, and improving them continuously.
At Smallest, infrastructure is not a support function — it is the product.
What We Care About (More Than Experience)
We do not care about years of experience.
We care about:
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Your understanding of our platform. This is important.
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Your approach towards client satisfaction
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Your ability to design and operate systems that don’t fall over
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Your instinct to determine what to automate and when to automate
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Your understanding of how systems behave under real traffic
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Your willingness to take ownership when production breaks
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Your ability to debug calmly, fix permanently, and document clearly
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You are flexible and agile
If you’ve learned these skills through startups, side projects, homelabs, open source, or real production failures — you’re qualified.
Key Responsibilities
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Implement and manage AWS-centric cloud infrastructure using Terraform
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Operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across multiple environments
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Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
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Deploy services using Helm and Argo CD (GitOps)
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Implement canary, blue/green, and rolling deployments
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Build and manage Docker images and registries
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Configure monitoring, alerting, and logging using New Relic and CloudWatch
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Manage AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, ALB/NLB, security groups
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Support RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Redis, and MongoDB infrastructure
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Support frontend delivery using CloudFront and AWS Amplify
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Write automation scripts in Bash, Python, or Go
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Troubleshoot incidents and participate in postmortems
Required Skill Set
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Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes
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Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
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CI/CD pipeline design and ownership mindset
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Production debugging and incident handling experience
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Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
Strong Plus
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Startup or scale-up production exposure
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DevOps/SRE side projects or homelabs
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Open-source contributions in cloud-native ecosystem
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Experience with cost optimization and capacity planning
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Terraform-based infrastructure automation
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Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows
Mindset We Value
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High ownership and accountability
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Comfort working in ambiguity
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Automation-first thinking
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Reliability over velocity without safety
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Strong bias toward learning from failures
If you have the need for speed, action bias, enjoy building infrastructure that scales, fixing real production problems, and making systems boringly reliable — this role is for you.
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