Software Engineer 1 - DevOps

Role Overview

As a DevOps Engineer, you will support the reliability, scalability, and deployment of Tellius platforms. This role involves close collaboration with engineering, QA, and customer-facing teams and requires strong communication skills to clearly explain technical issues and updates.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for reliable application releases.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC best practices across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications on AWS/GCP (preferred).
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
• Automate manual and repetitive tasks using Shell or Python.
• Contribute to application codebases and collaborate with developers on microservices and API integrations.
• Collaborate with developers and QA teams to ensure zero- or minimal-downtime deployments.
• Assist in implementing security controls, backup strategies, and disaster recovery processes.
• Participate in technical and customer-facing discussions, including deployment updates, issue triage, and clarifications related to the environment.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• You can independently manage and support CI/CD pipelines with minimal supervision.
• You respond to production or customer-reported issues calmly and communicate updates clearly and effectively.
• You understand system architecture well enough to explain incidents to customers and internal stakeholders.
• You proactively identify opportunities to automate processes and improve system reliability.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar engineering role.
• Experience working across multiple cloud providers (AWS and GCP/Azure)
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes operations.
• Experience using Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Proficiency in Shell or Python scripting.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or Java).
• Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking fundamentals, and cloud security basics.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Excellent communication skills, including experience writing incident reports or post-mortems, and comfortable presenting in customer calls or internal reviews.

Good to Have

• Exposure to GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD.
• Experience with Helm for Kubernetes package management.
• Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Familiarity with incident management tools (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira).
• Basic understanding of SLAs, SLOs, and production reliability concepts.
• Prior experience working with customer-facing engineering or support teams.

Growth Opportunities

• Hands-on mentorship and learning opportunities across DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering.
• Clear career progression paths toward Senior DevOps Engineer or SRE roles.

Tellius offers competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, along with full benefits, continuous learning opportunities, and clear career growth paths.