Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS / CI/CD (Part-Time, Equity-Based)

Compensation & Commitment — Please Read First
This is currently a part-time, equity-compensated role, approximately 10–15 hours per week with a flexible schedule. You'll receive shares in Halen for your contribution during this stage. Equity grants are subject to a standard vesting schedule.

We're actively fundraising, with the goal of transitioning this role into a full-time salaried position once funding is secured.

About the Role
Halen is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team as we prepare our rideshare and delivery platform for production and launch.

You'll work closely with our backend, Flutter, frontend, and QA teams to maintain reliable cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring, security, and production environments.

What You'll Work On

• Manage and improve our AWS cloud infrastructure
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend, web, and mobile applications
• Manage development, staging, and production environments
• Support deployment of Python/FastAPI microservices
• Manage containers and Docker-based deployments
• Work with Linux servers, scripts, services, permissions, and logs
• Manage databases, backups, migrations, and production database operations
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, alerts, and application health checks
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, deployment, and production issues
• Manage secrets, access controls, IAM permissions, and infrastructure security
• Monitor cloud usage and help control AWS costs
• Improve infrastructure automation and deployment reliability
• Maintain clear DevOps documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and handover procedures
• Work closely with developers and QA to support reliable releases

What We're Looking For
Strong hands-on experience with:

• AWS
• CI/CD pipelines
• Git/GitHub workflows
• Docker and containerized applications
• Linux
• Cloud networking and security
• IAM and access management
• Monitoring and logging
• Database operations and backups
• Infrastructure automation
• Production troubleshooting

Experience supporting production mobile applications, microservices, real-time systems, rideshare, delivery, logistics, or marketplace platforms is a plus.

Join Us Early
If you're interested in joining Halen at an early stage and helping build and maintain the infrastructure behind our platform, we'd like to hear from you.

Pay: $154,633.66 - $165,405.15 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan

Location:

• United States (Required)

Work Location: Remote