What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Specialist position at Creative Realities Inc?
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and scale our infrastructure and deployment systems. You will play a critical role in automating processes, improving system reliability, and enabling rapid, secure delivery of our backend services.
This role requires a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices, along with a proactive mindset toward system reliability, observability, and security.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available backend infrastructure
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Deploy, manage, and monitor containerized applications using Docker (and orchestration tools if applicable)
- Manage multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments
- Implement and maintain configuration management using Ansible
- Improve system observability through logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
- Ensure high system uptime, performance, and scalability through proactive optimization
- Collaborate with development teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows
- Enforce and implement security best practices across infrastructure and application layers
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
- Maintain documentation for infrastructure, processes, and runbooks
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience with JavaScript and TypeScript in backend or tooling environments
- Proven experience with Node.js in production systems
- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized application deployment
- Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS and Azure
- Experience with Ansible or similar configuration management tools
- Solid understanding of backend server infrastructure and distributed systems
- Experience deploying and maintaining production-grade systems
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls)
- Familiarity with Linux-based systems and command-line environments
- Understanding of version control systems (e.g., Git) and branching strategies
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Familiarity with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS)
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog)
- Experience with secrets management and secure configuration (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Experience with autoscaling, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies
- Familiarity with API gateways, reverse proxies, and load balancers (e.g., NGINX, HAProxy)
- Experience with artifact repositories and package management
Security & Compliance Expectations
- Strong understanding of secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices
- Experience implementing identity and access management (IAM) policies
- Familiarity with vulnerability scanning, patch management, and dependency security
- Knowledge of encryption standards (TLS, data-at-rest encryption)
- Awareness of compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
- Experience with security monitoring, logging, and incident response
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience working with IoT devices (e.g., System on Chip, BrightSign players, Android-based devices)
- Familiarity with edge computing and remote device management
- Experience supporting distributed device fleets at scale
- Knowledge of both Linux and Windows operating systems in production environments
- Experience with message queues or streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Salary : $59,000 - $73,000