DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are building a modern cloud platform that powers mission-critical satellite communications and real-time services for customers around the world. Our engineering team develops scalable distributed systems that process millions of events, orchestrate cloud services, integrate with multiple providers, and deliver highly available solutions using modern cloud-native technologies. We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer who enjoys automation, infrastructure, observability, and building reliable production platforms.

Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Employment Type: Full-Time On-site

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability.
• Improve logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Automate operational tasks and deployments.
• Support high-availability distributed systems.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response.
• Improve platform security and infrastructure reliability.
• Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application deployments and operational processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps or Platform Engineering experience.
• Strong Linux system administration skills.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Experience managing cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform preferred).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Excellent scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Experience with Kafka, Redis, BigQuery, PostgreSQL/MySQL.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging.
• Experience with FastAPI/Python applications.
• Experience with high-availability production environments and microservices architecture.
• Experience with event-driven systems.
• Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification.
• Terraform Associate Certification.
• Google Cloud Certification.
• Experience supporting 24/7 production systems.
• Experience working with distributed event-driven platforms.

Skills

• Passionate about automation.
• Curious and eager to learn.
• Proactive in identifying and solving problems.
• Detail-oriented.
• Self-motivated.
• Calm under pressure.
• A strong team player.
• Committed to building reliable, scalable systems.
• Integrity, ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and a continuous improvement mindset.

What You’ll Work On

• Kubernetes-based microservices.
• Event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• Cloud-native applications on Google Cloud.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• CI/CD automation.
• Monitoring, observability, and alerting.
• High-volume real-time data processing.
• Distributed systems serving customers around the world.