DevOps Engineer

Clever Real Estate

11d•$140,000 - $160,000•Remote

About The Position

We're hiring a DevOps Engineer to own and improve the infrastructure, deployment systems, and operational foundation that keep Clever reliable, secure, and resilient. This role sits around the application code: infrastructure, deployments, observability, secrets, environments, incident readiness, security controls, and reliable paths for internal tools and services. The goal is simple: make Clever's infrastructure boring in the best possible way. High-risk releases should be observable and recoverable, production issues should be easier to detect and diagnose, and engineers should spend less time fighting environments, deployments, and one-off infrastructure decisions. This is not a ticket-response operations role. We're looking for an engineer who can take ownership, identify recurring friction, prioritize the highest-leverage fixes, and drive improvements through to completion. The ideal candidate can reason about production systems, write code and automation, work near the backend application layer when needed, and partner across Engineering, Product, and Operations without slowing the company down.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or backend engineering, including hands-on production infrastructure ownership
Strong production experience with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and services such as ECS, RDS, networking, IAM, DNS, and related operational patterns
Experience operating or migrating production systems on Heroku, AWS, or similar platforms
Deep understanding of CI/CD, deployment automation, rollback strategies, environment management, and release safety
Strong observability and incident-response experience across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, escalation, runbooks, and post-incident learning
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, repeatable infrastructure templates, scripting, and automation
Comfortable reading backend application code and making well-scoped backend or internal-tooling changes when infrastructure and application behavior overlap
Strong security and access-management judgment, including secrets management, environment controls, and least-privilege patterns
Strong ownership mindset with a bias toward action, clear follow-through, and practical systems thinking
Clear written communication and business judgment, especially for runbooks, technical decisions, operational standards, incident follow-up, and connecting infrastructure work to company impact

Nice To Haves

SOC2
security audits
Redis
background workers
queue systems
webhook delivery
Datadog
Sentry
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Cloudflare
Tailscale
Docker
Django/Python
TypeScript

Responsibilities

Own and continuously improve the infrastructure and operational systems that support Clever's engineering teams
Build safer deployment paths with automated health checks, documented rollback plans, and clear release visibility for high-risk services where the architecture supports them
Improve production reliability across infrastructure, data stores, queues, background jobs, logs, alerts, and supporting services
Lead or support infrastructure migrations, production cutovers, and environment changes across Heroku, AWS, ECS, RDS, networking, and DNS
Strengthen observability and incident response through better alerts, dashboards, escalation paths, post-incident follow-up, runbooks, and operational drills
Define practical reliability targets, service ownership expectations, and production-readiness standards for critical systems, internal tools, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows
Partner with engineers on infrastructure-sensitive application work, including scaling, error handling, deployment risk, data access, rollback planning, and small backend or internal-tooling changes
Support SOC2 and security readiness by improving infrastructure controls, access patterns, vulnerability handling, evidence collection, and repeatable operational practices
Improve local development and staging environments so engineers can onboard, test, and validate changes with less friction