DevOps Engineer (Platform & Deployment Architecture)

South Geeks•Wyoming, NY

6d•Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to design and build a new deployment platform from the ground up. Today, deployments rely on a functional but outdated, homegrown PHP-based system. While it offers strong recoverability, it lacks the flexibility needed to support modern workloads — particularly the introduction of Rust-based services. Your mission will be to design and implement a containerized deployment system that enables reliable, observable, and maintainable releases across the platform. This is a high-impact role where you will define the tooling, architecture, and best practices working closely with engineers who are not DevOps specialists. This is ideal for someone who enjoys building simple, durable systems rather than over-engineered pipelines, and who values clarity, recoverability, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

Strong experience designing and implementing containerized deployment systems.
Solid experience working with Linux-based environments (Debian, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, etc.).
Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman or similar).
Understanding of CI/CD principles and deployment pipeline design.
Experience building systems with observability, logging and recoverability in mind.
Experience working with backend engineers and guiding infrastructure decisions.
Pragmatic mindset: preference for simple, maintainable solutions over complex architectures.

Nice To Haves

Background in fintech or other reliability-critical systems.

Responsibilities

Design and implement a new containerized deployment platform to replace a legacy system.
Enable deployment of Rust-based services and support future architecture evolution.
Potentially unify deployment workflows across different technologies (PHP and Rust).
Ensure systems are recoverable, observable and easy to debug when failures occur.
Define deployment standards, tooling and best practices for the engineering team.
Provide guidance and support as the system is adopted and stabilized.