DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (Senior/Lead) ID43756 AgileEngine Location: Greater Buenos Aires WHY JOIN US If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you ABOUT THE ROLE As a Lead DevOps Engineer , you’ll own and evolve cloud infrastructure that powers AI‑driven products, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across distributed systems. You’ll lead modernization efforts in AWS, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and champion automation and observability best practices. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with strategic impact, offering the opportunity to shape infrastructure standards and drive innovation in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment. WHAT YOU WILL DO Lead cross‑cutting infrastructure projects not tied to app/platform changes, such as domain migrations for pipelines and customer‑facing sites, networking redesigns to avoid IP exhaustion, and medium‑sized automation initiatives. Design and evolve AWS networking and environments to support more dev/test sites, future SaaS infrastructure, and sandboxes where dev teams can experiment safely. Define and implement a disaster recovery strategy and secondary region or DR zone to improve resilience and recovery time. Implement cost, reliability, observability, and monitoring improvements across services, using metrics and logs to guide optimization. Design, maintain and evolve AWS‑based infrastructure, including ECS, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CDK, VPCs, subnets, security groups, Route 53, and load balancers. Upgrade AWS Aurora Postgres clusters to the latest supported versions, ensuring high availability, data integrity, and minimal downtime. Own and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for production deployments, covering containerized services and Lambda‑based workloads. Manage infrastructure as code using AWS CDK (TypeScript) and other IaC practices to drive automation, consistency and repeatability. Consolidate and optimise shared tooling, utility scripts and reusable components across multiple repositories. Collaborate with engineering and leadership to define the infrastructure roadmap, influence architecture decisions and promote DevOps culture and best practices. MUST HAVES 6+ years of experience in DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering, including ownership of multi‑quarter infrastructure projects or leadership roles. Strong expertise with AWS services such as ECS, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CDK and core networking (VPC design, routing, subnets, security groups, NAT, DNS/Route 53, load balancers). Proficient with Docker, GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD patterns for cloud‑native applications. Deep knowledge of Postgres administration, including upgrades, backups and performance tuning. Strong scripting and automation skills with TypeScript, Python or Bash. Proven ability to architect scalable, secure and reliable cloud environments, including DR strategies and cost‑optimization practices. Experience improving observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) and using it to guide reliability and cost improvements. Excellent communication and collaboration skills , with a track record of working closely with engineers and stakeholders to execute infra roadmaps. Self‑driven, practical and detail‑oriented , comfortable making decisions, documenting trade‑offs and delivering high‑quality results with limited supervision. Upper‑intermediate English level. NICE TO HAVES Familiarity with AI/ML workflows or cloud‑based AI services. Experience with AWS Bedrock or similar generative AI platforms. Exposure to Cursor or other modern AI‑enhanced developer tools. Understanding of security and scaling best practices for distributed environments. Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.). PERKS AND BENEFITS Professional growth: Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks and personalised growth roadmaps. Competitive compensation: We match your expertise with competitive USD‑based compensation and budgets for education, fitness and team activities. A selection of exciting projects: Join projects with modern solutions development and top‑tier clients including Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands. Flextime: Tailor your schedule for an optimal work‑life balance, with options to work from home or in the office to maximise productivity. Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Full‑time Job function IT Services and IT Consulting #J-18808-Ljbffr