DevOps Engineer - RemotePeople

About Remote People

At Remote People, we're building the infrastructure to power borderless teams. By handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, our technology enables businesses to hire anyone anywhere compliantly at the push of a button.

We're committed to building a global, diverse team representing different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Being part of Remote People means being part of a growing, international family.

Overview

We're seeking an Intermediate DevOps Engineer with solid infrastructure fundamentals, a platform-first mindset, and a drive to grow fast in a high-ownership environment.

You'll be part of our DevOps team, working closely with engineering squads across a remote-first organization spread across Asia and Europe. Your primary focus will be keeping our platform reliable and scalable, making our observability stack actionable, and reducing friction in build and release processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, reliability, and security of our SaaS platform across environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make build, test, and release processes fast, safe, and self-service for engineering squads.
• Leverage Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Implement and improve observability tooling (metrics, logs, and traces) so squads can understand system behavior and act on it.
• Monitor platform capacity and performance, forecasting resource needs proactively.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and preventive follow-up.
• Support engineering squads in integrating their services smoothly within the platform infrastructure.
• Use AI tools to accelerate automation scripting and infrastructure work, applying judgment to review and validate generated output.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a DevOps or SRE Engineer.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Clear written communication skills and reliable asynchronous collaboration in a remote environment.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with AI tools applied to infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure automation tooling.
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or public software product.
• Understanding of security best practices in a DevOps environment.
• Self-directed, curious, and comfortable taking ownership of tasks.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary
• Asynchronous and remote-first work environment
• Ability to work from abroad for short periods
• Growth and development opportunities within the company
• Hardware and equipment provided to ensure success from day one