About Cloud-Native Engineering Linqia is the leader in influencer marketing. We're a growing tech start-up, having experienced 100% year-over-year growth and break-even. At Linqia, we partner with top brands to build compelling campaigns using AI-driven platforms and expert teams. We value intelligence, recognize talent, and support career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer-first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity, and love to have fun as we play to win. Job Details Experience level one to three years Location Anywhere in Colombia About This Role You'll join a cloud-native team that owns the entire software delivery life cycle on Amazon Web Services. You'll combine deep Kubernetes expertise with Python and shell scripting to automate, monitor, and continuously improve the platform while driving FinOps practices to keep our cloud footprint efficient. Work in a GitOps culture where every change is delivered through pull requests and rolled out by automated pipelines. Key Responsibilities - Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, maintain, and evolve our AWS account structure, VPC networking, IAM policies, security boundaries, and cost-management controls using Terraform and the AWS console - Kubernetes Operations: Operate and harden production-grade Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including upgrades, service mesh, policy management, and multi-cluster architectures driven by Argo CD - Infrastructure as Code: Build reusable infrastructure-as-code modules with Terraform that provision cloud resources in minutes while enforcing tagging standards and least-privilege access - CICD Pipelines: Create self-service CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for fast, safe releases with automated testing and promotion across environments - Observability: Deliver real-time observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry, introducing Loki when deep log analytics are required - Streaming Platforms: Deploy and scale streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka and stateful data stores like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Elasticsearch on Kubernetes via Operators and StatefulSets or on hardened EC2 virtual machines, selecting the best deployment pattern for each workload - Developer Support: Support developers by maintaining Podman-based local dev boxes and staging environments that mirror production, ensuring smooth hand-off from local code to cloud-native deployments - FinOps Practices: Implement FinOps practices: track and forecast AWS spend, enforce cost-allocation tagging, identify rightsizing opportunities, manage Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, and build cost-optimization dashboards for engineering and finance stakeholders - Secure Networking: Maintain secure networking layers with AWS load balancers, ingress controllers, service-mesh policies, network policies, and zero-trust principles - Automation Utilities: Write automation utilities and command-line tools in Python and craft shell scripts that glue components and workflows together - Reliability Engineering: Champion reliability through incident reviews, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and service-level objective tracking - Collaboration: Collaborate in Agile rituals, plan sprints, refine backlog tickets, and pair with peers to spread DevOps and FinOps best practices About You - Bachelor's Degree: Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience - Cloud Experience: One to three years working with cloud infrastructure or platform engineering focused on AWS - Kubernetes Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, covering upgrades, networking, storage, RBAC, and custom resources - Python and Bash Scripting: Proficiency in Python and Bash or Zsh scripting - Core AWS Services: Strong understanding of core AWS services EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch - FinOps Principles: Demonstrated experience applying FinOps principles: cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimization on AWS - Docker and Container Runtimes: Solid experience with Docker and container runtimes, with emphasis on Podman for local development environments - Configuration-Management Tools: Hands-on practice with configuration-management tools such as Ansible or Puppet and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform - Monitoring and Logging: Proven use of Datadog for metrics, logs, and APM, plus familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards - Git-Based Workflows: Comfortable with Git-based workflows, feature branching, and pull-request reviews - SQL Skills: Strong SQL skills and a deep understanding of relational database internals, plus familiarity with at least one search or analytics engine such as Elasticsearch - Linux Administration: Competent in Linux administration, process troubleshooting, and performance tuning - Networking Fundamentals: Practical knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and common networking tools - Communication Skills: Clear communication skills and an ability to translate complex technical topics to diverse audiences - Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban and a continuous-improvement mindset Extra Credit - AWS Certifications: AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or FinOps Practitioner - AWS Security Tooling: Experience with AWS security tooling GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Access Analyzer, and KMS - Data Pipelines: Building data pipelines with Apache Spark, Flink, or similar frameworks - Event-Driven Architectures: Implementing event-driven architectures with Kafka Streams or KSQL - SRE Practices: Applying SRE practices such as error budgets and service-level dashboards - Machine Learning: Exposure to machine-learning workflows, ModelOps, or MLOps in production Linqia is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. Please note that this job description is not an employment contract, but rather a summary of the key responsibilities and qualifications for the role. If you have any questions or concerns about the job description or application process, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.