Colonist - DevOps Engineer

• You love hard technical problems. Scale, latency and cost excite you • You have senior-level experience in DevOps • You have run Kubernetes in production: rollouts, autoscaling, networking, load balancers, and debugging a bad deploy • You run infra lean. You optimize before adding hardware • You document as you go. Runbooks and decisions are natural outputs of your work. • You are comfortable with Linux, Docker, and a CI system you did not build • You have operated PostgreSQL and Redis under real traffic: slow queries, connection limits, and schema migrations without downtime • You have run a message broker in production; we use NATS, but equivalent experience transfers • You have put Cloudflare, or a similar edge, in front of a public service • You can debug a live incident across app logs, metrics, the database, and the edge • AI-forward mindset. We see AI fluency as a real multiplier • Deeply independent. You learn a system from its code, configs and monitoring. • Strong written communication. You explain complex systems clearly in async settings, to technical and non-technical audiences alike • Collaborative by default. You share context proactively, help other engineers understand infrastructure, and never operate as a silo • Experience structuring documentation for AI consumption: machine-readable runbooks, structured architecture notes, agent-readable formats • Experience building self-service infrastructure paths for other engineers: golden paths, templates, or internal tooling • Security depth beyond the basics: threat modelling, access control, audit practices, governance guardrails • You've run real-time or multiplayer systems where shared state matters. • Previous experience as a solo or near-solo infrastructure engineer at a small company • Our Values at Colonist • We strongly adhere to these values in our team - if these resonate, then you'll love working here! • We're self-driven players who deliver without needing supervision. When we commit to something, we make it happen. • We take full responsibility and go beyond our roles to improve Colonist. • Clear Communication • In our remote environment, written communication is key. We're direct, structured, and always keep our team in the loop. • Efficient Execution • We move fast and focus on impact. Instead of getting stuck on perfect solutions, we find practical ways forward and get things done. • Continuous Learning • We're curious problem solvers who love a challenge. We constantly seek new ideas, embrace feedback, and aren't afraid to change our minds when we're wrong.