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DevOps Lead (AWS / Terraform)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, and evolving production infrastructure on AWS
  • Extensive experience across AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora Serverless
  • Professional-level Terraform experience, including reusable multi-environment module design
  • Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, including pipeline templates and protected environments

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability, security, and delivery foundation of an AWS serverless platform
  • Lead hands-on improvements to the platform while strengthening automation and security controls
  • Manage the complete delivery lifecycle, treating infrastructure, security, CI/CD, observability, and production reliability as interconnected responsibilities
  • Respond to security or secrets-related incidents with strong troubleshooting and incident-management skills

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Communication
  • Collaboration

About the company

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Cresteo

Computer Software / SaaS

Cresteo partners with companies to move beyond AI hype and into execution. Agentic AI systems and bespoke software are engineered to run in production, integrate with existing environments, and deliver measurable results in weeks, not quarters. Solutions remain fully client-owned, with controlled risk, no vendor lock-in, and a clear path from pilot to scale.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Our Essence:

Cresteo is on a mission to be the world leader in people-first and honest nearshore tech services. We prioritize a people-centered approach in an industry that often feels distant and impersonal. Our services are led by experienced, incredibly talented professionals who are changing the system from within - while collaborating with top global clients.

Our foundation is built on:

  • Deep expertise
  • Candid transparency
  • Profit-sharing
  • Fearless innovation

Our team stands out for their deep-rooted passion for corporate change, treating software development as a human sport and art form.

When it comes to recruitment, we won't box you into rigid questionnaires; we genuinely want to get to know you. Our interactions are not transactional but human-centered, seeking genuine understanding and connection.

You'll hear about our core values and experience them with us firsthand. They define our essence.

Join Cresteo and be part of the change we're championing!

Why You Belong Here

As a DevOps Lead at Cresteo, you'll be more than just a developer; you will be part of transforming the tech industry through our honest, transparent, and people-centric approach.

Your role will be diverse and dynamic. You'll be instrumental in developing and maintaining our software solutions, working with a varied technology stack, and ensuring that our products are functional, efficient, reliable, and scalable.

By joining us, you're not just choosing a job; you're aligning with a vision that values the human side of tech, where your skills and passion are recognized, nurtured, and celebrated.

What We're Looking For

  • Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, and evolving production infrastructure on AWS, with a strong focus on serverless architectures
  • Extensive experience across AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB, OpenSearch Serverless, S3, SNS, SQS, ECS, CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, SES, Secrets Manager, AppConfig, and CloudWatch
  • Professional-level Terraform experience, including reusable multi-environment module design and major provider-version upgrades
  • Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, including pipeline templates, protected environments, approval gates, and OIDC-based authentication with AWS
  • Hands-on experience deploying serverless applications using AWS SAM
  • Strong cloud security engineering skills, including secrets rotation, IAM least-privilege design, secret scanning, and dependency and container vulnerability scanning within CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong observability experience using CloudWatch metrics, alarms, dashboards, logging, and production monitoring strategies
  • Experience owning production incident response and participating in or leading on-call operations
  • Experience implementing SOC 2 controls from an engineering perspective, including evidence collection, traceability, access controls, and auditable infrastructure practices
  • Experience designing resilient AWS environments, including multi-region and disaster recovery strategies, is highly valued
  • Strong understanding of cost optimization for serverless and consumption-based AWS services
  • Experience operating Amazon MWAA is valued
  • Experience migrating applications from Serverless Framework to AWS SAM or CDK is valued
  • Experience improving and hardening CI/CD environments, including introducing effective quality gates, blocking tests, secure deployment controls, and safer production release processes
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code mindset, with infrastructure changes designed and managed through code rather than manual console configuration
  • Strong ownership of the complete delivery lifecycle, treating infrastructure, security, CI/CD, observability, and production reliability as interconnected engineering responsibilities
  • Strong troubleshooting and incident-management skills, including experience responding to security or secrets-related incidents
  • Professional English communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and client stakeholders

Own the reliability, security, and delivery foundation of an AWS serverless platform across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and production operations. Lead hands-on improvements to the platform while strengthening automation, security controls, resilience, and engineering practices across both maintenance and delivery.

Our Commitment to You:

  • 100% Remote
  • USD above-average salaries
  • Profit Sharing Policy
  • Unlimited PTOs after your first year (20 PTOs the first year)
  • Equipment for your setup
  • Great work/life balance
  • Honest, simple, and transparent culture
  • US-based clients and international teams

Everyone has a story. We're eager to hear yours and help you write the next chapter. 

Are you ready for a change?

#Wearethechange! 

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