DevOps Engineer - Remote

About the role

Emapta is recruiting a full-time, day-shift DevOps Engineer to work remotely for a US-based PEO that provides HR outsourcing, payroll, benefits and workforce management services. The role optimizes cloud environments, automates deployments and strengthens the HR platforms used by US businesses, with global exposure and collaboration with international technology teams.

Key responsibilities

• Manage deployment pipelines so applications release reliably across multiple environments.
• Maintain and update application packages and dependencies to keep Rails applications secure, stable and compatible.
• Oversee server infrastructure across Heroku, Railway, AWS and Render.
• Implement and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for CI, testing and deployment.
• Develop and maintain Playwright automated test frameworks within deployment pipelines.
• Monitor application performance, including N+1 query issues and API integration inefficiencies, and implement performance improvements.
• Maintain server logs and application monitoring, and set up health checks and uptime monitoring.
• Design and run ETL processes to support business operations and data analytics.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, support microservices architecture, and carry out security updates, patches, database backups, migrations and performance tuning.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent qualification.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps or a related technical role, or an equivalent mix of education and experience.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills in production environments.

Required skills

• Ruby on Rails application architecture and deployment best practices.
• AWS, Heroku and Railway; GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools.
• Playwright or comparable automated testing frameworks.
• PostgreSQL, with strong knowledge of database management and performance optimization.
• Microservices architecture, application performance monitoring, and familiarity with Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch and Papertrail.
• ETL processes and data pipeline development.
• Preferred: Kubernetes, Docker, and the ability to read Ruby code.

What we offer

• Full-time day shift, weekends off, working from home.
• Competitive salary and full compliance with Dominican statutory benefits, including 13th-month pay, paid annual vacation and public holidays, and social security covering health insurance, pension (AFP) and occupational risk insurance.
• Sick leave and disability coverage through Social Security.
• Career growth with global exposure, learning and development support through Emapta Academy.