[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @PayShepherd

Role Description

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to own the day-to-day health of our AWS infrastructure; keeping it secure, reliable, cost-efficient, and ready to scale.

Our platform handles sensitive financial data for some of the largest industrial operators in North America. The security and reliability bar is high, and we need someone who treats it that way, not as paperwork, but as core craft.

This isn't a role where you'll need to invent a brand-new platform from scratch. We need someone dependable who can step into our AWS environment, understand it quickly, keep it healthy, and make it better week over week.

When the infrastructure is humming, we want someone who can roll up their sleeves and contribute to product code, internal tooling, or automation projects. That cross-functional ability is a real asset on a small team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience
• Strong hands-on AWS experience
• Strong security knowledge and instincts
• Comfortable with Linux, shell scripting, and at least one general-purpose programming language (Python, Node.js, PHP, Go, or similar)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling
• Familiarity with relational databases (MySQL preferred)
• Solid communication skills

Requirements

• Operate, maintain, and improve our AWS environment (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ALB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CloudWatch, and the rest)
• Manage IAM policies, roles, and access boundaries with care
• Monitor performance, reliability, and cost; surface and act on issues before they become problems
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK)
• Own backup, disaster recovery, and incident response procedures
• Apply AWS security best practices end-to-end
• Review and harden the environment against common threats
• Maintain audit logging and observability
• Respond to security questionnaires, vendor reviews, and customer compliance requests
• Stay current on AWS security advisories and apply patches and mitigations promptly
• Maintain and improve our build, test, and deployment pipelines
• Support our production MySQL databases: backups, monitoring, query performance, schema migrations
• When DevOps work is light, contribute to product code, internal tools, or automation projects
• Work closely with our Engineering Lead and the rest of the engineering team
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Communicate progress, blockers, and recommendations clearly and early

Benefits

• Meaningful stock options
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision plans
• Real autonomy and real accountability
• New MacBook and accessories