DevOps Engineer

SmartVault•Houston, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This is a hybrid role based in Houston, TX. This role requires working in-office 2-3 days per week. 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

Requirements

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 Haves

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 .

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.