DevOps and Security Engineer

We're looking for a DevOps and Security Engineer with 2-5 years of experience to help us build and grow Instahyre. Please go through the role and expectations below to decide whether you would be interested in joining our mission to build the world's best recruitment tool.

This role is primarily focused on AWS infrastructure and software security. You will manage and improve our cloud infrastructure, servers, deployment tooling, and application security.

Responsibilities:

• Provision, configure, and maintain infrastructure and services on AWS
• Manage production and staging servers, including upgrades, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity management
• Monitor AWS infrastructure for performance, reliability, availability, and cost
• Implement and maintain AWS security best practices, including IAM, networking, access controls, secrets, and security policies
• Identify and address infrastructure and application security vulnerabilities
• Work with developers to improve software and web application security
• Investigate security alerts and infrastructure incidents and implement preventive measures
• Maintain and improve our deployment and server-management automation written in Python/Fabric
• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational tasks using Python and shell scripting
• Manage backups, disaster recovery processes, SSL certificates, DNS, and other production infrastructure
• Help improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility

Requirements:

• 2-5 years of relevant DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or security experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and commonly used AWS services
• Good understanding of Linux administration and production server management
• Good knowledge of cloud and software security
• Experience with IAM, VPCs, security groups, networking, permissions, and AWS security controls
• Good knowledge of Python and ability to understand and modify existing automation/deployment scripts
• Experience with shell scripting and Linux command-line tooling
• Understanding of web application security, vulnerability management, authentication, encryption, and secure infrastructure practices
• Ability to troubleshoot production infrastructure independently

Good to have:

• Experience with Django/Python applications
• Experience managing databases, Redis, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Nginx, or similar production systems
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and centralized logging