Senior DevOps Engineer

This remote role is based in Costa Rica and only open to citizens and permanent residents of Costa Rica who do not need visa sponsorship.  
 

Academic Level  

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.  

Description  

ImagineX Studio - Costa Rica is a product-oriented and boutique software development company. We partner with our clients to become their product team, helping them from ideation to product launch. We commit to delivering quality, impactful, ground-breaking products that can realize our client's vision and make their life easier. We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who will help Startups to bring cloud platforms to scale as we help founders to make their products become a reality. We have an ever-growing roadmap comprised of interesting work throughout our platform’s stack and are searching for the right people to help us. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Configuring, provisioning, maintaining and optimizing our Cloud infrastructures (Mostly AWS).
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability. 
• Conduct regular billing audits and make recommendations that will help reduce cloud infrastructure costs.
• Help consolidate enterprise best practices for:
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Security, secrets management, and RBAC
  • API governance & integration patterns

Required Technical Skills 

• 5+ years experience configuring and managing Cloud infrastructure environments in AWS 
• Deep proficiency with cloud IaC (infrastructure as code) tools - Terraform strongly preferred
• Experience with K8s (Kubernetes), Docker & Git
• Experience with ArgoCD for deployments and GitHub Actions for CI pipelines
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
• Knowledge of DNS and CDN technologies like Route53, Cloudflare/Cloudfront. 
• Knowledge with serverless environments (e.g. AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or similar technologies) 
• Experience implementing infrastructure security best practices. 

Strategic Skills  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  
• Security mindset 
• Extreme Ownership & Initiative
• Adaptability and experience working with larger / multiple teams to review and deliver code.