DevOps Engineer

Design, automate, and operate secure, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud platforms. Ship CI/CD, observability, and IaC that let teams deploy quickly and recover fast. Measure SLOs and lower cloud spend with data, not guesses.

Location: United States or Türkiye only. We do not hire outside these countries.

What you'll deliver in your first 90 days

• Infrastructure as Code baseline for at least two client environments with Terraform modules and drift detection.
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI) with build-to-prod lead time <30 minutes and one-click rollback.
• Observability stack live: logs, metrics, traces, and alerts for the four golden signals; on-call runbook published.
• SLOs set for critical services (target ≥99.9%); incident MTTR <30 minutes for P1 after playbooks go live.
• Secrets and IAM hardened: no secrets in repos, least-privilege roles, automated rotation.
• Cost controls: 90%+ tag coverage, budgets and alerts, and a documented 10-20% monthly cost reduction plan.
• Backup and DR: RPO/RTO defined, backups verified with at least one restore test per environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP preferred) using Terraform and GitOps workflows.
• Own CI/CD: artifact management, environment promotion, canary/blue-green, and automated rollback.
• Run Kubernetes or container platforms (EKS/GKE) including Helm/ArgoCD, autoscaling, and networking.
• Implement observability: OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana/ELK, alert routing, SLOs, and incident response.
• Secure the stack: network policy, IAM, secrets management (SSM/Secrets Manager/Vault), image and dependency scanning, SBOMs.
• Optimize cost: rightsizing, lifecycle policies, savings plans/RIs, storage tiers, usage reports to stakeholders.
• Document everything: runbooks, architecture diagrams, readiness/DoD/DoR checklists.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and engineering; support sales with accurate assumptions and effort ranges.

Requirements

• 4+ years as DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineer at a startup or agency.
• Expert with Terraform and Git; comfortable reviewing plans and enforcing policy-as-code.
• Strong with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and service networking (ingress, DNS, TLS).
• CI/CD proficiency: GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, artifact registries, caching, and pipeline optimization.
• Observability skills: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and on-call hygiene.
• Security fundamentals: IAM, secrets, image scanning, supply-chain controls.
• Scripting ability in Bash and one higher-level language (Python, Go, or Node.js).
• Solid networking and Linux fundamentals.
• Time-zone overlap: minimum 4 hours with Pacific Time or Türkiye time, depending on team.
• Based in the United States or Türkiye.

Nice to have

• FinOps experience and unit economics reporting.
• SOC 2/ISO 27001 readiness work.
• Data platform operations (Airflow/DBT/warehouse) or mobile CI (Flutter/React Native).
• Edge/IoT deployment pipelines and OTA update systems.

How we work

• Two-week sprints, trunk-based development, small PRs, frequent releases.
• Everything as code. Changes flow through PRs with automated checks.
• Blameless postmortems and action items with owners and dates.

Horizon Labs builds MVPs, modernizes legacy systems, and integrates complex stacks for startups and SMBs.