Linqia is the leader in the influencer marketing industry. Were a growing tech start-up, having experienced 100% year-over-year growth and break-even. At Linqia, we partner with the worlds largest brands including Danone, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.
We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win.
SOFTWARE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVOPS ENGINEER
Experience level 3+ YoE supporting production saas in AWS
Location Anywhere in LATAM preferably in Colombia
Employment type Fulltime contract
ABOUT THE ROLE
Build out a cloudnative team that owns the entire software delivery life cycle on Amazon Web Services. You will combine deep Kubernetes expertise with Python and shell scripting to automate, monitor, and continuously improve the Linqia platform while driving FinOps practices to keep our cloud footprint efficient. Work in a GitOps culture where every change is delivered through pull requests and rolled out by automated pipelines.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Design, maintain, and evolve our AWS account structure, VPC networking, IAM policies, security boundaries, and costmanagement controls using Terraform and the AWS console
- Maintain secure networking layers with AWS load balancers, ingress controllers, servicemesh policies, network policies, and zerotrust principles
- Operate and harden productiongrade Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including upgrades, service mesh, policy management, and multicluster architectures driven by Argo CD
- Build reusable infrastructureascode modules with Terraform that provision cloud resources in minutes while enforcing tagging standards and leastprivilege access
- Create selfservice CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for fast, safe releases with automated testing and promotion across environments
- Deliver realtime observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry, and use these tools to assist in solving production bugs and issues
- Administer and maintain purpose-built Linux VMs via configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
- Deploy, scale, and maintain databases on AWS (Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, etc.), maintaining high database performance/uptime, optimizing tables and datasets, and ensuring disaster recovery protocols are in place.
- Support developers by maintaining Podmanbased local dev boxes and Kubernetes staging environments that mirror production, ensuring smooth handoff from local code to cloudnative deployments
- Implement FinOps practices: track and forecast AWS spend, enforce costallocation tagging, identify rightsizing opportunities, manage Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, and build costoptimisation dashboards for engineering and finance stakeholders
- Write automation utilities and commandline tools in Python and craft shell scripts that glue components and workflows together
- Champion reliability through incident reviews, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and servicelevel objective tracking
- Collaborate in Agile rituals, plan sprints, refine backlog tickets, and pair with peers to spread DevOps and FinOps best practices
WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- three plus years working with cloud infrastructure or platform engineering focused on AWS
- Deep handson experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, covering upgrades, networking, storage, RBAC, and custom resources
- Proficiency in Python and Bash or Zsh scripting
- Strong understanding of core AWS services EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch
- Demonstrated experience applying FinOps principles: cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimisation on AWS
- Solid experience with Docker and container runtimes, with emphasis on Podman for local development environments
- Handson practice with configurationmanagement tools such as Ansible or Puppet and infrastructureascode with Terraform
- Proven use of Datadog for metrics, logs, and APM, plus familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
- Comfortable with Gitbased workflows, feature branching, and pullrequest reviews
- Strong SQL skills and a deep understanding of relational database internals
- Competent in Linux administration, process troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Practical knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and common networking tools
- Clear communication skills and an ability to translate complex technical topics to diverse audiences
- Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban and a continuousimprovement mindset
EXTRA CREDIT
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or FinOps Practitioner
- Experience with AWS security tooling GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer, and KMS
- Building data pipelines with Apache Spark, Flink, or similar frameworks
- Implementing eventdriven architectures with Kafka Streams or KSQL
- Applying SRE practices such as error budgets and servicelevel dashboards
- Exposure to machinelearning workflows, ModelOps, or MLOps in production
This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. Linqia is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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