DevOps / Cloud & Infrastructure Lead (AWS)

The Role

We are hiring a DevOps / Cloud & Infrastructure Lead to take direct ownership of our production cloud systems, improve reliability and performance, and establish the operational practices required to scale. This role is focused on infrastructure and operations.

Immediate Priorities

In the near term, you will help address operational challenges impacting production (including capacity and stability issues in our data clusters, such as disk utilization/full-disk events), and implement durable solutions that prevent recurrence.

What You’ll Do

• Own production infrastructure end-to-end: availability, performance, cost, reliability, and security.
• Design and improve AWS architecture to support current and future platform needs.
• Implement observability and operations practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, postmortems).
• Build and maintain containerized workloads and orchestration patterns (Docker/Kubernetes where applicable).
• Develop and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code standards using tools like Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments and fast rollbacks (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Manage and optimize databases and data services, including performance tuning and resilience for:

• • PostgreSQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis

• Support data-intensive systems and ETL pipelines, ensuring stability and throughput at scale.
• Strengthen networking and security posture (VPC design, firewalls/security groups, SSL/TLS, IAM/access controls).
• Guide technical decision-making with long-term business impact, balancing speed, reliability, and sustainable growth.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define clear ownership boundaries and operating rhythms across teams.

What We’re Looking For

Requirements

• Proven track record of direct ownership over production cloud systems.
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS, including services such as:

• • EC2, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, SQS, DynamoDB
  • RDS for PostgreSQL in production

• Deep familiarity with DevOps and system operations, including incident response and reliability practices.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Strong background in database management and optimization (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis).
• Solid understanding of networking and security fundamentals (VPCs, SSL/TLS, access controls).}
• English C1, Spanish C1

Nice to have

• Experience operating data-heavy platforms, including ETL and pipeline reliability.
• Experience with scaling practices for high-availability systems and cost optimization.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Fewer incidents and faster recoveries when issues occur.
• Clear monitoring/alerting coverage and improved visibility into system health.
• Stable and scalable data systems (capacity planning, proactive maintenance, performance tuning).
• Infrastructure changes are repeatable and auditable through IaC.
• Deployment processes are reliable, measurable, and low-risk.
• Engineering team time shifts from firefighting infrastructure issues back to shipping product.
• English C1, Spanish C1

Team & Growth Context

PatentVest is building toward a more specialized technology organization over time. This role is a key step in establishing dedicated ownership for infrastructure and operations, enabling the software development team to focus on feature delivery while ensuring the platform remains reliable, secure, and scalable.

Work modality
This is a remote work position open to candidates from Latin America.

Application Instructions: Qualified candidates should submit their CV in English.