DevOps Engineer

Why this role existsOur infrastructure footprint is growing faster than our headcount, and we believe most of thatgap should be closed by automation and AI agents — not by hiring more humans to do toil. Weneed someone early in their career who treats manual work as a bug, ships scripts and agentsinstead of tickets, and wants to grow into deeper ownership over the next two years.You will not be the most senior person on the team. You will be the one who multiplies the team.What you'll ownIn your first 1 months• Take ownership of one slice of our CI/CD pipeline and make it measurablyfaster, more reliable, or cheaper. We expect a number on a dashboard to move.• Build at least three internal automations that replace manual ops toil —using AI agents (Claude Code, agentic CLIs, scripted LLM workflows) as your forcemultiplier.• Be the first responder for a defined set of alerts. Write the runbooks. Drivethe alert volume down.• Support senior engineers on AI/ML infrastructure (GPU nodes, inferenceservices, model deployment) — observe, document, and gradually take on containedchanges under review.By 3 months you should be• The go-to person for at least two production systems.• Shipping routine infrastructure changes without needing senior review.• Treating "manual" as a code smell.Required (we will reject without these)• 0–3 years hands-on experience with one major cloud (AWS, GCP, orAzure — one is fine, depth beats breadth).• Fluent in Linux command line, bash, and at least one scripting language(Python or Go preferred).• Have shipped something to production that real users hit. A side projectcounts; a graded coursework lab does not.• Comfortable with Docker — you can explain what an image vs. acontainer is and why it matters.• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, HTTP/HTTPS,TLS, ports, basic subnets — enough to debug "it works on my machine."• Git fluency: branches, merges, rebases, conflict resolution.• CI/CD pipelines — you have authored or substantially modified pipelinesin GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar. Not just "I clicked Re-run."• Kubernetes basics — kubectl for real work, can read pod logs,understand deployments and services, can debug a CrashLoopBackOff withoutpanicking. You do not need to have run a cluster; you do need to have lived inside one.• Active user of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, agenticCLIs, etc.). You should be able to walk us through specific tasks where they made youfaster, and specific tasks where they failed you and how you noticed. "I have tried it" isnot enough.Bonus (real plus, not required)• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible.• Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, any APM.• Have built or extended an LLM-based agent — a custom MCP server, ascripted multi-step workflow, an internal tool that calls models in a loop. Anything beyondchat-with-Claude.• Exposure to GPU workloads, model serving (vLLM, Triton, TGI, etc.), orML pipelines.What we don't care about• Whether your degree is in CS — or whether you have a degree at all.• Brand-name companies on your resume.• Certifications. They are fine. They do not substitute for having shipped.How we work• We default to automation. If you do something manually twice, the thirdtime you script it or hand it to an agent.• AI agents are part of the workflow, not a novelty. Expect interviewquestions about exactly how you use them — and where you have caught them beingwrong.• Small, reversible changes beat big-bang rollouts.• Postmortems are blameless and written down.• We push back on each other. If you only execute, you will be unhappyhere.How to applySend:• Your resume.• A short note (≤200 words) describing one infra or automation problem yousolved, and how AI agents factored in — or did not, and why. We read these. Genericnotes get rejected.Internal note — delete before posting externally• Comp band, location policy, team name, and reporting line marked[CONFIRM] need to be filled in before this goes external.• The Required list is intentionally tight: CI/CD and Kubernetes basicspromoted from bonus. Expect this to filter ~80% of typical junior DevOps applicants. Theremaining pool will skew toward people who have actually shipped infra at a startup, notbootcamp grads or pure cloud-cert holders.• IaC, observability, agent-building, and GPU/ML serving stay as bonus.Promoting any of these to required at 0–3 yrs collapses the pool to near-zero or forceshiring senior people at junior comp. If you want IaC required, re-level this to mid (3–5yrs) and raise the band.• Screening implication: the resume screen should explicitly check forCI/CD pipeline authorship and any K8s-touching production work. If neither is on theresume, reject at screen. Do not waste interview slots.• Pipeline watch: if fewer than ~15 qualified resumes after 2 weeks ofactive sourcing, the first thing to relax is the AI-agent-fluency bar (move to bonus andscreen for it in interview instead). Do not relax the "shipped to production" requirement— that is the load-bearing filter.