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SmartVault Corporation

DevOps Engineer

SmartVault Corporation, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246

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The Role

We are looking for a motivated and hands-on DevOps Engineer with 3-5 years of experience to join our agile, cross-functional product team. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing highly secure, scalable, and reliable cloud platform solutions on AWS. You will collaborate with the Head of DevOps and other technical leaders to build and maintain infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and security processes. Additionally, you will play a key role in supporting ISO 27001 / ISMS / SOC2 Type II compliance efforts. This role requires strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, excellent communication, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. While an infrastructure background is beneficial, you should also be comfortable writing scripts and basic software code to enhance and streamline operations. The Team

The SmartVault product team is dynamic and fast-paced, keeping up to date with the latest technologies, and using agile and self-organising principles to help deliver quality products and services. The team wholeheartedly embraces the DevOps culture, continuously striving to add value to products and customers through automation, collaboration, and a proactive monitoring and feedback loop with product teams. And that's only just the start! It's a great cross-functional team that works to produce great technical solutions in a great way. We offer you the opportunity to: be part of a talented, collaborative and motivated team learn from and be inspired by skilled colleagues teach and inspire others work across the entire product life cycle develop your skill set and research / adopt the latest design patterns, methodologies, principles and technologies have a positive influence over high level architectural decisions make your mark and, in doing so, make us better Key Responsibilities

Work closely with the Head of DevOps to define detailed technical requirements, plan work, and prioritize tasks according to business needs. Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud platform solutions. Ensure strict security compliance and best practices in cloud infrastructure. Drive automation to improve efficiency, scalability, and system reliability. Strive for zero downtime when deploying solutions or services. Develop and own scalable processes for: Capacity planning Configuration management Monitoring and observability Provide day-to-day operational support and perform systems administration tasks. Participate in an on-call rotation to support the platform 24/7. Ensure high-quality monitoring coverage for infrastructure and applications. Identify potential failure points in infrastructure and proactively develop mitigation strategies. Collaborate with internal IT teams for operational support. Assist in maintaining compliance with ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type II security frameworks. Our Tech Stack

(Currently in use, but evolving over time) Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Services

CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, ECS, CloudFront, CloudTrail, Inspector, SSM Containerization

Docker, Podman Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, HashiCorp Packer Message Queues

RabbitMQ Operating Systems

Windows, Linux Databases

Relational

MySQL, PostgreSQL NoSQL

DynamoDB, Couchbase Scripting & Programming

Languages

Python, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript CI/CD Pipelines

Git, TeamCity, AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy Required Skills & Experience

You don't need

all

of these, but the more you have, the stronger your fit. Preferred 3-5 years DevOps experience. Strong

AWS experience

in

infrastructure, security, and automation . Technical infrastructure knowledge across

servers, storage, and networks . Experience with

containerization (Docker, Podman, etc.) . Comfortable working in

high-security and high-compliance environments . Hands-on experience

scripting and coding

for DevOps automation. Experience in

database administration , performance tuning, and resilience design. Solid understanding of

CI/CD concepts and best practices . Familiarity with

monitoring, logging, and alerting

for large distributed systems. Strong

networking fundamentals

(IP, traffic flow, network ports, protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, FTP). Ability to

troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues

and drive resolution. Experience managing

large-scale tasks from inception to completion . Strong understanding of

cloud security principles . Proficient

communication skills

(written and verbal). Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with

automation tooling

(e.g., HashiCorp products, configuration management tools). Experience with

automated testing

in DevOps workflows. Knowledge of

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), shift-left principles, and immutable infrastructure . Experience working in

ISO 27001, PCI compliance, or SOC2 Type II

environments. A

tertiary degree

in

computer science, engineering, or related fields . What We're Looking For in You

We want people who: Take ownership

of their work and

care about results . Have a

hands-on approach

and

a strong sense of accountability . Are

team players

with a

flexible and positive attitude . Have a

friendly, proactive demeanor

and

strong problem-solving skills . Love

learning and staying ahead of technology trends . Sponsorship is not available at this time.