Job Description:
Discover your 100% YOU with MicroSourcing!
Position: Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
Location: Cebu
Work setup & shift: Onsite | Night shift
Why join MicroSourcing?
You’ll Have
- Competitive Rewards: Enjoy above-market compensation, healthcare coverage on day one, plus one or more dependents, paid time-off with cash conversion, group life insurance, and performance bonuses
- A Collaborative Spirit: Contribute to a positive and engaging work environment by participating in company-sponsored events and activities.
- Work-Life Harmony: Enjoy the balance between work and life that suits you with flexible work arrangements.
- Career Growth: Take advantage of opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.
- Inclusive Teamwork: Be part of a team that celebrates diversity and fosters an inclusive culture.
Your Role
- Own and improve production and staging AWS infrastructure supporting applications, workers, queues, databases, caching, storage, secrets, logging, and scheduled workloads.
- Strengthen GitHub Actions and container release workflows to make builds, tests, migrations, configuration changes, deployments and rollbacks predictable and reliable.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
- Identify and resolve infrastructure risks, single points of failure, fragile dependencies, stuck jobs and weak queue or retry behavior.
- Build and maintain CloudWatch logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, health checks and runbooks to improve system observability and incident response.
- Support PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, backups, restore procedures, database connections, migrations and safe production changes.
- Strengthen cloud security through IAM roles and policies, secrets management, secure authentication, least-privilege access, network controls and environment separation.
- Automate developer and operational workflows, including environment setup, deployment checks, diagnostics, validation and recurring infrastructure tasks.
- Troubleshoot production issues across application logs, AWS infrastructure, queues, networks, databases and external services.
- Use AI engineering tools to inspect unfamiliar infrastructure, generate and review scripts and IaC, investigate logs, improve CI/CD workflows, draft runbooks and automate repetitive operational work.
- Lead incident resolution from initial detection through diagnosis, remediation, root-cause analysis and preventative improvements.
What You Need
Non-negotiables
- Strong hands-on experience operating production systems on AWS, including compute/containers, networking, IAM, logging, databases, queues and managed services.
- Practical experience with Docker and production container deployments, with ECS/Fargate or comparable container orchestration experience.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent tools.
- Strong Linux, shell scripting and infrastructure automation skills, with sufficient Python proficiency to build operational tools and collaborate with application engineers.
- Experience with production observability, including logs, metrics, alerts, health checks, dashboards and incident diagnostics.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and operational requirements such as backups, restores, database connections, migrations, capacity and safe production changes.
- Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, secrets management, least privilege, environment isolation and secure CI/CD credentials.
- Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GPT/ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, Cursor or comparable platforms.
- Strong reliability mindset with the ability to identify manual processes, hidden dependencies, weak failure handling and recovery risks.
- Experience with SQS, Redis, distributed/background workers, schedulers, retries, dead-letter queues and asynchronous systems.
- Experience operating Python/Flask applications and understanding application-level failure modes.
- Experience with AWS RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, IAM/OIDC and backup/restore processes.
- Experience handling production incidents and developing runbooks, release checklists, disaster-recovery procedures and preventative improvements.
- Experience working in healthcare, HIPAA-regulated, security-sensitive or other high-trust production environments.
Preferred Skills/expertise
- Experience building highly available and fault-tolerant AWS architectures.
- Experience implementing blue-green, rolling, canary or similarly controlled deployment strategies.
- Experience with Terraform modules, reusable IaC patterns, state management and infrastructure drift prevention.
- Experience with AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, DNS, VPNs and private connectivity.
- Experience implementing centralized logging, monitoring, alerting and operational dashboards.
- Experience with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Config or comparable security and monitoring services.
- Experience with container registries, image security, dependency scanning and automated vulnerability management.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning, backup validation, restore testing, RTO/RPO planning and business continuity.
- Experience supporting AI/LLM platforms, voice AI systems, API-heavy applications or other distributed production workloads.
- Experience with healthcare integrations, EHR/FHIR systems, HIPAA controls or other regulated technology environments.
- Experience improving developer experience through deployment automation, self-service tooling, environment automation and operational documentation.
About MicroSourcing
With over 9,000 professionals across 13 delivery centers, MicroSourcing is the pioneer and largest offshore provider of managed services in the Philippines.
Our commitment to 100% YOU
MicroSourcing firmly believes that our company's strength lies in our people's diversity and talent. We are proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces individuals of all races, genders, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We provide space for everyone, embracing different perspectives and making room for opportunities for each individual to thrive.
At MicroSourcing, equality is not merely a slogan – it's our commitment. Our way of life. Here, we don't just accept your unique authentic self - we celebrate it, valuing every individual's contribution to our collective success and growth. Join us in celebrating YOU and your 100%!
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