Senior DevOps Engineer

Contract Type: Independent Contractor (Self-employment or LLC)
Type of Work: Full-time (40 hours per week)
Location: Remote work
Work Schedule: Flexible, Mon-Fri: 12:00 – 21:00 EEST, including 1 hour lunch break
Salary Range:  $5,000 – $7,000 gross monthly, based on skills and experience

Brief Description:

As our Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll own the infrastructure and security that keep our mental health app running smoothly and safely. You’ll be the go-to expert who builds smart deployment pipelines, sets up monitoring, and drives best practices around protecting sensitive data. We’re a small, fast-moving team, so your ideas and initiative will shape how we grow and secure our platform. If you’re passionate about building solid foundations in a startup environment and want to make a real impact on mental health tech, this role is for you.

Key competencies:

• Proven experience managing AWS environments, including deploying and maintaining backend services and frontend static hosting (S3 + CloudFront)
• Strong hands-on skills with Python/Django applications and related infrastructure components: PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, especially GitHub Actions, with ability to automate deployments, migrations, and service restarts confidently
• Experience working with containerized development environments (Docker) and familiarity with best practices for production deployments (even if not containerized yet)
• Security mindset with a good grasp of HIPAA-related concerns, data privacy, and healthcare application best practices (formal HIPAA certification not required)
• Ability to design and implement observability and monitoring solutions from scratch (logs, metrics, alerts) to ensure system reliability and proactive incident detection
• Senior-level expertise with a track record of proposing and implementing infrastructure and security best practices independently in a startup or small-team environment
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative attitude for working remotely or hybrid, comfortable taking ownership as the sole DevOps + SecOps hire

Nice to have:

• Experience or familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CloudFormation
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as ISO 27001 or ISO 27799, or experience helping organizations move toward these certifications
• Prior experience introducing security tooling such as Dependabot alternatives, vulnerability scanners, or compliance monitoring solutions
• Hands-on familiarity with frontend build/deployment optimization in modern React/Vite stacks
• Exposure to cloud-native observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK stack
• Comfortable with scripting automation beyond GitHub Actions, e.g., Python or Bash for custom tooling or maintenance tasks
• Experience working in mental health, healthcare, or regulated industries