DevOps / Platform Engineer (Senior)
Senior DevOps/Platform engineer owning AWS infrastructure, deployment automation, and reliability for a production healthcare technology platform, working directly with the CTO. 100% work-from-home in the Philippines on day shift. Core stack: AWS ECS/Fargate, Terraform/IaC, GitHub Actions, Docker, PostgreSQL, Python.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Philippines
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS environments (compute, containers, networking, IAM, databases, queues, logging, managed services)
- Docker and production container deployments with hands-on AWS ECS/Fargate experience
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience: Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent
- Strong Linux and shell scripting skills with practical Python proficiency
- Experience implementing production monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, health checks, and incident diagnostics
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and production database operations (backups, restores, migrations, safe changes)
- Strong understanding of AWS security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, least privilege, secure CI/CD credentials, environment isolation
- Demonstrated proficiency using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor for engineering work
- Strong reliability mindset: identifying operational risks, automating manual processes, improving resilience
Nice to have
- Experience managing AWS services: RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, SQS, IAM/OIDC
- Experience operating asynchronous systems: Redis, message queues, background workers, scheduled jobs, retries, dead-letter queues
- Familiarity with Python/Flask applications, REST APIs, SQLAlchemy, Alembic migrations, and application-level troubleshooting
- Experience with incident response, root-cause analysis, runbooks, release checklists, disaster recovery
- Knowledge of AWS networking, container orchestration, infrastructure monitoring, and performance optimization
- Experience with external integrations: AI/voice platforms, healthcare systems, identity providers, CRM, third-party APIs
- Background in healthcare technology, HIPAA-regulated environments, or other security/privacy-sensitive production systems
- Ability to deliver repeatable, reversible deployments and preventive automation that reduces recurring incidents
Full description
Discover your 100% YOU with MicroSourcing!
Position
DevOps / Platform Engineer
Location
Philippines
Work setup & shift
100% Work From Home | Day Shift
Why join MicroSourcing?
You’ll Have
- Competitive Rewards: Enjoy above-market compensation, healthcare coverage on day one, plus one or more dependents, paid time-off with cash conversion, group life insurance, and performance bonuses.
- A Collaborative Spirit: Contribute to a positive and engaging work environment by participating in company-sponsored events and activities.
- Work-Life Harmony: Enjoy the balance between work and life that suits you with flexible work arrangements.
- Career Growth: Take advantage of opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.
- Inclusive Teamwork: Be part of a team that celebrates diversity and fosters an inclusive culture.
Your Role
As a DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will own the infrastructure, deployment automation, reliability, and operational stability of a production healthcare technology platform. You will work directly with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to strengthen AWS infrastructure, streamline releases, automate provisioning, and ensure secure, reliable, and scalable operations.
- Manage Cloud Infrastructure: Operate and optimize AWS services, including ECS/Fargate, RDS/PostgreSQL, SQS, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch, to support production and staging environments.
- Automate Deployment Pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and Docker to enable reliable releases, automated testing, controlled database migrations, and safe rollbacks.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code: Develop reproducible infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools to reduce manual configuration and improve consistency across environments.
- Strengthen Reliability and Observability: Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, alerts, dashboards, health checks, and recovery procedures to detect and resolve infrastructure and application issues proactively.
- Improve Security and Operational Resilience: Apply least-privilege access, secure secrets management, environment isolation, backup and restore procedures, and reliable queue and background worker processing.
- Troubleshoot Production Issues: Investigate incidents across cloud infrastructure, containers, networks, databases, application logs, and external integrations, implementing preventive measures to minimize recurring failures.
- Optimize Developer Operations: Automate infrastructure setup, operational diagnostics, deployment validation, and routine maintenance tasks while collaborating with application engineers and QA.