DevOps Engineer (part-time/hourly-based)

About the role

We are seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team on a part-time, hourly basis (approximately 60 hours per month). The position is fully remote and focuses on designing, building and maintaining Azure‑based cloud infrastructure for our SaaS products.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate production‑grade Azure infrastructure.
• Develop Python scripts and automation tools to streamline deployments and operational workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Monitor performance, troubleshoot incidents and ensure high availability.
• Optimize cloud environments for cost, scalability and security.
• Enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM, secrets management and network segmentation.
• Collaborate with software engineers and architects on cloud‑native design decisions.

Required profile

• 5+ years of commercial experience in DevOps or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure in production.
• Proven ability to work autonomously within a limited time budget.
• Upper‑intermediate or advanced English communication skills.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Python
• Terraform / Pulumi / CloudFormation
• CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Linux system administration
• Monitoring and logging (Datadog, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch)
• Networking fundamentals (VPC, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, security groups)
• Cloud security (IAM, secrets management, network segmentation)