DevOps / Platform Engineer

Overview

We’re (https://santabrowser.com/) hiring a DevOps / Platform Engineer to help us run reliable production systems and ship changes safely. You’ll work closely with engineering to improve deployments, stability, monitoring, and day-to-day operations across cloud and Kubernetes environments.

What you’ll do

• Own build and release workflows (from code to deployment), keeping them clean and reliable
• Support and operate Kubernetes-based services (deployments, upgrades, rollbacks, scaling)
• Manage secure traffic routing and HTTPS/TLS certificates, including renewals and troubleshooting
• Support databases and data systems by maintaining backups, basic reliability practices, and operational readiness
• Help operate streaming/realtime systems and ensure production systems handle load and failures gracefully
• Maintain secure cloud networking and access controls (least privilege, safe change practices)
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and logging so incidents can be diagnosed quickly
• Participate in on-call rotation and scheduled maintenance work
• Keep runbooks and operational documentation up to date, and coordinate changes through tickets

What we’re looking for

• Strong production troubleshooting mindset (Linux + system debugging)
• Experience supporting cloud infrastructure and containerized applications
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operations and release workflows
• Comfort managing certificates/HTTPS and handling operational issues around renewals
• Working knowledge of databases and backups (restore testing, retention, basic performance awareness)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control workflows
• Good communication and ownership in incident response and cross-team coordination

Tools you’ll likely work with

• Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, AWS, Redis/Postgres/ClickHouse (and similar), Kafka/realtime systems, Prometheus/Grafana, centralized logging, Slack/Jira/Confluence.

Nice to have

• Experience with secrets management tools (Vault / AWS Secrets Manager)
• Experience connecting cloud and office/private networks (VPN / routing)
• Automation scripting (Node.js/TypeScript or Python)