DevOps Engineer

Amperesand • Reno, NV

12d • $110,000 - $160,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll work directly with our infrastructure team to support daily cloud deployment operations across AWS. You'll gain hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud operations while contributing directly to our deployment and monitoring systems. This role is ideal for someone with cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) or an ops background who wants to deepen their infrastructure engineering skills in a fast-moving startup environment.

Requirements

• 1 to 3 years of experience in cloud operations, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
• Basic understanding of CI/CD concepts and version control (Git)
• Comfortable with Linux command line and troubleshooting
• Ability to read and understand application logs, error messages, and monitoring data
• Strong communication skills and ability to document processes clearly
• Willingness to learn rapidly in a startup environment with evolving infrastructure

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) or orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms and tools
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD systems
• Exposure to infrastructure standards, best practices, or policy definition
• Background in software engineering with a desire to specialize in infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Execute and monitor Terragrunt/Terraform deployments across development and production AWS environments
• Troubleshoot deployment failures and coordinate rollbacks
• Debug and maintain GitHub Actions workflows
• Manage artifact storage, S3, ECR
• Triage CI/CD failures and unblock deployments
• Perform day-to-day AWS resource management (EC2, RDS, VPC)
• Monitor CloudWatch/Datadog dashboards
• Respond to alerts and operational issues
• Support production services including distributed messaging systems
• Execute runbooks
• Triage logs and traces to diagnose issues
• Maintain runbooks and operational procedures
• Identify and automate repetitive tasks
• Contribute to infrastructure as code improvements
• Participate in on-call rotations, after onboarding
• Execute incident response procedures
• Document post-incident learnings

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed