Contractor Infrastructure and Operations Engineer
Gofasti is hiring a remote Contractor Infrastructure and Operations Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Latam based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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We Make Remote Work Remarkable • TopTalent from LatAm Hello! We are GoFasti, a Talent-as-a-Service. GoFasti bridges the gap between world-class developers and designers from LatAm and first-class companies around the globe. We need an English-fluent Infrastructure and Operations Engineer, based in Latin America, available to work remotely.
We are looking for someone with exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, who embraces changes while maintaining strong attention to detail. An interested and proactive person, who's constantly learning and improving their skills.Are you the one we are looking for?
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain robust, scalable CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, Docker, and AWS services to streamline deployments and reduce downtime.
- Oversee and optimize AWS environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency of cloud-based services.
- Implement and manage network configurations including VPNs, firewalls, IP addressing, load balancing, and secure access protocols.
- Ensure infrastructure meets security and privacy standards through proactive hardening, access control, and secure deployment strategies.
- Perform basic SQL database administration, including monitoring, performance tuning, backups, and data recovery processes.
- Use AWS CloudFormation to automate infrastructure provisioning and support serverless deployments using AWS Lambda and related services.
- Set up and maintain observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to proactively detect and resolve system issues.
- Perform advanced Linux system administration, including updates, configuration, performance optimization, and security enhancements.
- Work cross-functionally to support application deployments, troubleshoot issues, and ensure alignment between infrastructure and development efforts.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or systems engineering roles.
- Proficient in AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, IAM, VPC, and related cloud-native tools.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitHub Actions and Docker in production environments.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and tools (VPN, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux systems administration, shell scripting, and performance tuning.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Familiarity with SQL databases and basic database administration tasks.
- Security-minded approach to infrastructure design and deployment.
- Experience with serverless architectures and automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Compensation:
The Salary range offered for this position varies from (USD) $2,000 - $3,000 per month, depending on seniority and skillset. This position is for an independent contractor, through a payroll platform. The talent will work REMOTELY allocated at our client.