DevOps Engineer

About the Company

South Geeks connects top LATAM engineering talent with innovative companies building impactful products worldwide. Our client is a financial technology company providing secure payment and prepaid card solutions for public sector organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a new containerized deployment platform to replace a legacy system
• Enable deployment of Rust-based services and support future architecture evolution
• Potentially unify deployment workflows across different technologies (PHP and Rust)
• Ensure systems are recoverable, observable and easy to debug when failures occur
• Define deployment standards, tooling and best practices for the engineering team
• Provide guidance and support as the system is adopted and stabilized

Requirements

• Strong experience designing and implementing containerized deployment systems
• Solid experience working with Linux-based environments (Debian, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, etc.)
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Podman or similar)
• Understanding of CI/CD principles and deployment pipeline design
• Experience building systems with observability, logging and recoverability in mind
• Experience working with backend engineers and guiding infrastructure decisions
• Pragmatic mindset preferring simple, maintainable solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in fintech or other reliability-critical systems

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Payment in USD
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Work-from-home & training reimbursement
• English lessons
• Technical training
• Career coaching