About The Role

We’re looking for a hands-on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building systems that run reliably in production.

You’ve seen early-stage chaos, fast scale-ups, or have built serious infrastructure on your own. You understand that reliability is earned through ownership, automation, and clean engineering — not titles or years of experience.

You will take approved system architecture and turn it into real, working infrastructure, translating High-Level Designs (HLD) into practical, battle-tested Low-Level Designs (LLD).

This is a deeply execution-focused role.

You will work on production systems every day — deploying, scaling, observing, fixing, and improving them continuously.

At Smallest, infrastructure is not a support function — it is the product.

What We Care About (More Than Experience)

We do not care about years of experience.

We care about:

Your understanding of our platform. This is important.
Your approach towards client satisfaction
Your ability to design and operate systems that don’t fall over
Your instinct to determine what to automate and when to automate
Your understanding of how systems behave under real traffic
Your willingness to take ownership when production breaks
Your ability to debug calmly, fix permanently, and document clearly
You are flexible and agile

If you’ve learned these skills through startups, side projects, homelabs, open source, or real production failures — you’re qualified.

Key Responsibilities

Implement and manage AWS-centric cloud infrastructure using Terraform
Operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters across multiple environments
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Deploy services using Helm and Argo CD (GitOps)
Implement canary, blue/green, and rolling deployments
Build and manage Docker images and registries
Configure monitoring, alerting, and logging using New Relic and CloudWatch
Manage AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, ALB/NLB, security groups
Support RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Redis, and MongoDB infrastructure
Support frontend delivery using CloudFront and AWS Amplify
Write automation scripts in Bash, Python, or Go
Troubleshoot incidents and participate in postmortems

Required Skill Set

Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes
Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
CI/CD pipeline design and ownership mindset
Production debugging and incident handling experience
Knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

Strong Plus

Startup or scale-up production exposure
DevOps/SRE side projects or homelabs
Open-source contributions in cloud-native ecosystem
Experience with cost optimization and capacity planning
Terraform-based infrastructure automation
Helm and GitOps-based deployment workflows

Mindset We Value

High ownership and accountability
Comfort working in ambiguity
Automation-first thinking
Reliability over velocity without safety
Strong bias toward learning from failures

If you have the need for speed, action bias, enjoy building infrastructure that scales, fixing real production problems, and making systems boringly reliable — this role is for you.

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