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Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Foundations

HopHR

Job description

We are supporting a specialized VC firm in financial services, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin, focused on building, backing, and buying technology-enabled financial and business services companies. The firm is incubating a new insurtech venture aimed at digitizing life-insurance distribution across North America and expanding into wealth-advisory use cases.

What you'll own
  • A monorepo structure with clear conventions for all services.
  • A fully working example service that shows developers how everything should be built and deployed.
  • Terraform modules for all infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM).
  • CI/CD pipelines that define the standard path from build → test → deploy.
  • Docker image standards and ECS/Fargate deployment patterns.
  • Secret management (IAM, KMS, SSM/Secrets Manager), you control and maintain secure keys.
  • Baseline monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting for all services.
  • Documentation and runbooks that make onboarding and scaling easy.

    • Requirements
  • AWS expert: VPC, IAM, ALB, CloudWatch, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Secrets Manager.
  • Terraform expert: authored modules, complex state mgmt, multi-environment design.
  • CI/CD builder: pipelines designed or rebuilt from scratch (GitHub Actions preferred).
  • Docker + ECS: deployed containers with autoscaling, health checks, log routing.
  • Ability to set up basic monitoring, logs, metrics, and alerts for ECS-based services (CloudWatch preferred).
  • Experience maintaining a monorepo or creating deployment boilerplate/templates.
  • Strong experience with secret and key management (IAM policies, KMS, SSM).

    • Nice to have
  • Experience with Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or CloudWatch dashboards.
  • Background in security hardening, IAM least-privilege, and image scanning.
  • Prior startup or high-growth experience.
  • Cost optimization experience on AWS.

    • Additional Information
  • 1-year contract with extensions based on performance
  • Competitive USD hourly rates aligned to experience
  • Remote in Latin America (EST)
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