Smallest is Hiring Fresher/Experience DevOps Engineer

Smallest is looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve reliable production infrastructure.

This is an execution-focused role where you will turn approved High-Level Designs (HLD) into practical Low-Level Designs (LLD) and production-ready infrastructure. You will work directly with production systems, handling deployments, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and reliability improvements.

At Smallest, infrastructure is considered a core part of the product. The role requires strong ownership, practical problem-solving, automation-first thinking, and the ability to operate systems reliably under real-world traffic.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

- Implement and manage AWS-centric cloud infrastructure using Terraform.

- Design and maintain AWS networking components including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, ALB, and NLB.

- Support scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure across production environments.

- Contribute to infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning.

Kubernetes & Container Infrastructure

- Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS.

- Manage Kubernetes workloads across multiple environments.

- Build and maintain Docker images and container registries.

- Deploy applications using Helm.

- Implement reliable deployment strategies including rolling, canary, and blue/green deployments.

CI/CD & GitOps

- Build, maintain, and own CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

- Implement GitOps-based deployment workflows using Argo CD.

- Automate application and infrastructure deployment processes.

- Improve deployment reliability, repeatability, and operational efficiency.

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability

- Configure monitoring, alerting, and logging using New Relic and Amazon CloudWatch.

- Monitor production infrastructure and application performance.

- Develop and maintain reliable observability practices.

- Work with SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to improve system reliability.

- Identify performance and reliability issues before they significantly impact production.

Production Support & Incident Management

- Troubleshoot production incidents and infrastructure failures.

- Investigate system behavior under real traffic and changing workloads.

- Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.

- Participate in production postmortems and document lessons learned.

- Improve systems and processes based on recurring incidents and operational findings.

Distributed Systems & Supporting Infrastructure

- Support RabbitMQ and Amazon SQS messaging infrastructure.

- Support Redis and MongoDB infrastructure.

- Maintain infrastructure supporting frontend delivery through CloudFront and AWS Amplify.

- Ensure supporting services remain reliable and available for production workloads.

Automation

- Develop automation scripts using Bash, Python, or Go.

- Identify repetitive operational tasks and automate them where appropriate.

- Improve infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows through automation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.

- Strong practical experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.

- Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals.

- Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience with production debugging and incident management.

- Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles.

- Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.

- Strong ownership and accountability when working with production systems.

- Ability to troubleshoot problems calmly and implement permanent solutions.

Preferred Skills

- Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology environment.

- DevOps or SRE side projects and homelab experience.

- Open-source contributions to the cloud-native ecosystem.

- Experience with infrastructure cost optimization.

- Experience with capacity planning and scaling production systems.

- Strong Terraform experience.

- Experience with Helm and Argo CD.

- Experience implementing GitOps deployment workflows.

- Programming or scripting experience with Bash, Python, or Go.

Technology Stack

- Cloud: AWS

- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS

- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

- CI/CD: GitHub Actions

- Deployment: Helm, Argo CD, GitOps

- Monitoring: New Relic, Amazon CloudWatch

- Networking: AWS VPC, Subnets, Routing, ALB, NLB, Security Groups

- Messaging: RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS

- Databases & Caching: MongoDB, Redis

- Frontend Delivery: CloudFront, AWS Amplify

- Automation: Bash, Python, Go

- Reliability: SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets

What You’ll Work On

As a DevOps Engineer at Smallest, you will work on real production infrastructure and contribute across the complete infrastructure lifecycle, including:

- Cloud infrastructure provisioning

- Kubernetes cluster operations

- CI/CD automation

- GitOps deployments

- Infrastructure as Code

- Production monitoring and observability

- Incident response and troubleshooting

- Deployment automation

- Cloud networking

- Infrastructure scaling

- Cost optimization

- Reliability engineering

- Post-incident improvements

Working Style

Smallest values engineers who demonstrate:

- High ownership and accountability

- Automation-first thinking

- Comfort working in ambiguous environments

- Strong learning ability

- Practical problem-solving

- Willingness to take responsibility for production systems

- Focus on building reliable and maintainable infrastructure

- Ability to learn from failures and continuously improve systems

Why Join Smallest?

This role provides an opportunity to work directly with modern cloud-native technologies and production infrastructure. You will gain hands-on exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, distributed systems, and Site Reliability Engineering practices while helping build infrastructure designed for scale and reliability.

Apply for the DevOps Engineer Role

If you enjoy building cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, operating Kubernetes environments, troubleshooting production systems, and improving reliability through engineering and automation, this DevOps Engineer opportunity at Smallest offers the chance to work on challenging production infrastructure in an execution-focused engineering environment.

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