Senior Devops Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior DevOps Engineer

At South Geeks, we power the evolution of technology by connecting elite LATAM engineers with future-shaping companies. For over 8 years, we've built high-performance, culturally aligned teams that thrive on innovation, precision, and collaboration. We care for the people who take care of our clients—creating lasting partnerships and world-class results.

Our client provides digital workflow solutions for local governments, helping them replace outdated, paper-based processes with modern platforms. Their technology drives transparency, efficiency, and citizen engagement, empowering municipalities to serve their communities more effectively. Trusted across the public sector, their platforms are central to enabling secure, scalable digital transformation in government services.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to lead infrastructure and deployment initiatives. This is a hands-on, senior technical position where you'll shape the strategy for automation, scalability, and security. You'll design and optimize cloud architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions, ensuring that engineering teams deliver secure, reliable, and resilient applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure in Azure and GCP.
• Lead migrations, hybrid solutions, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi).
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build).
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management.
• Reduce manual work with scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Implement centralized monitoring and alerting (Azure Monitor, Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for reliability.
• Lead incident response and postmortems.
• Apply cloud security best practices (IAM, secrets, network security, vulnerability scanning).
• Partner with compliance teams on SOC2 requirements.
• Integrate "shift-left" security into infrastructure and pipelines.
• Partner with development, QA, and product teams.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and foster knowledge-sharing.
• Evaluate emerging tools and practices for continuous improvement.

What You Need To Succeed

• 5+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Expert knowledge of Azure (App Services, AKS, Functions, Azure DevOps).
• Strong experience with GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, networking).
• Proficiency in IaC (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi).
• Solid containerization/orchestration skills (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• CI/CD expertise (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines).
• Excellent scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Strong understanding of networking, DNS, load balancers, and cloud security.

What We Offer

• Long-term projects with innovative clients.
• 100% remote work.
• Paid in USD.
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• English lessons and technical training.
• Career coaching and mentorship.
• Work-from-home & training reimbursements.