Site Operations Engineer

TL;DR

Site Operations Engineer (DevOps): Designing, implementing, and maintaining automated infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines with an accent on configuration management, database optimization, and monitoring systems. Focus on building robust deployment strategies, ensuring system reliability, and supporting hybrid cloud environments.

Location: Hybrid, in Colombia

Company

Encora is a global company offering software and digital engineering solutions across various practices like Cloud Services, AI & LLM Engineering, and Cybersecurity.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Ansible and Python.
• Build, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across platforms such as GitLab, GitHub, and AWS Code/CDK.
• Manage and optimize PostgreSQL databases across on-prem and AWS environments, including performance tuning and disaster recovery.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems across hybrid infrastructures.
• Support incident management and contribute to infrastructure migrations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience as a DevOps, SiteOps, or Infrastructure Engineer supporting scalable production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, and operational tooling.
• Hands-on expertise with Ansible for configuration management and infrastructure automation.
• Solid experience managing PostgreSQL databases including optimization, replication, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Experience working in hybrid environments including private data centers and AWS cloud.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or AWS pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, or Grafana Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems including CentOS and Alma Linux.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, load balancing, security best practices, and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements.
• Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers.
• Continuously improve software development practices to ensure robust and reliable systems.
• Encora hires professionals based solely on their skills and does not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.