DevOps Engineer

• SWTCH is looking for a highly motivated DevOps Engineer to join our growing tech team. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will design, build, and optimize our AWS container platform, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• This is a collaborative role: you’ll work closely with development and operations teams to streamline deployment, testing, and software delivery, and help lead our path to push-to-deploy continuous delivery
• Develop and maintain our AWS ECS platform (Fargate and ECS on EC2), along with our existing EC2 and Docker Compose hosts
• Manage CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions, improving reliability and build speeds and moving us toward push-to-deploy with feature flags, canary or blue-green deploys, and automated rollback
• Collaborate with Development and Architecture teams to build highly available cloud environments, including our Traefik-based OCPP edge and self-hosted Redpanda streaming platform
• Build and extend our toolchain, including AWS (ECS, Fargate, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store), OpenTofu, and shell scripting, with Checkov, tflint, and plan checks on every PR
• Maintain and enhance automation tooling and deployment infrastructure in line with SOC 2 best practices
• Identify parts of the architecture that lack redundancy and improve reliability, including supporting our MySQL to Postgres migration
• Build monitoring, alerting, and tooling (Vector, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry) that surfaces front-end and back-end issues as soon as they happen, including per-service SLOs and burn-rate alerts
• Write and maintain clear documentation for infrastructure and processes

Benefits

• Remote, hybrid, or in-office working options
• Learning & development opportunities
• Health benefits starting day 1

• Experience deploying and managing infrastructure as code with OpenTofu or Terraform
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, or build automation, including 3+ years with large-scale distributed infrastructure and client-server architecture
• Hands-on experience with AWS ECS (Fargate and/or EC2), Docker, and container technologies in a microservices environment
• Experience with CI/CD (ideally GitHub Actions), continuous testing, and monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana and Prometheus-compatible metrics (e.g., VictoriaMetrics)
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure automation
• Experience with Kafka-compatible streaming systems such as Redpanda or Kafka
• An AWS certification. If you don’t have one yet, we’re happy to sponsor your exam
• Experience working in a SOC 2 environment