Software Engineer 1 (DevOps) - Full-time, onsite

Grayhat Developers Private Limited · Pakistan

Software Engineer 1 (DevOps) - Full-time, onsite

Engineering @ Grayhat

You'll work closely with software engineers, QA, product managers, and leadership to make sure our applications move from development to production smoothly - and stay there.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys automation, solving infrastructure problems, improving reliability, and making engineering teams faster.

1. Infrastructure & Cloud

• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure and development environments.
• Work with services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP .
• Configure and maintain servers, networking, storage, databases, and related infrastructure.
• Help design infrastructure that is reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Maintain development, staging, and production environments.

2. CI/CD & Deployment

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for web, mobile, backend, and other applications.
• Automate build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Improve deployment speed, reliability, and consistency.
• Manage application releases and production deployments.
• Reduce manual deployment and operational work through automation.

3. Docker & Containerization

• Build and maintain Docker images and containerized applications.
• Work with Docker Compose and/or Kubernetes where appropriate.
• Improve container security, performance, and reliability.
• Help engineering teams adopt consistent development and deployment environments.

4. Monitoring & Reliability

• Set up and maintain application and infrastructure monitoring.
• Monitor system health, performance, uptime, and resource usage.
• Configure logging, alerts, dashboards, and incident monitoring.
• Investigate production issues and help identify their root causes.
• Continuously improve system reliability and availability.

5. Security & Access

• Follow infrastructure and deployment security best practices.
• Manage environment variables, secrets, credentials, and access controls securely.
• Implement appropriate permissions and authentication mechanisms.
• Help identify and address infrastructure security risks.
• Work comfortably with Linux environments.
• Manage processes, services, networking, permissions, storage, and system resources.
• Troubleshoot server and application-level issues.
• Use command-line tools effectively to diagnose problems.

7. Automation

• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational tasks.
• Use scripting and infrastructure-as-code where appropriate.
• Improve internal developer workflows and engineering tooling.
• Look for ways to eliminate manual processes and reduce operational overhead.

8. Engineering Collaboration

• Work closely with software engineers to understand application requirements.
• Support developers in getting their applications running reliably in different environments.
• Collaborate with QA on testing and release processes.
• Help teams understand deployment, infrastructure, and production requirements.
• Document important infrastructure and operational processes.
• Use AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting, scripting, documentation, automation, and infrastructure work.
• Explore practical ways AI can improve DevOps workflows.
• No blind copy-paste engineering - you should understand what you deploy and why.

10. Ownership & Problem Solving

• Take ownership of infrastructure and deployment tasks from start to finish.
• Investigate problems instead of simply working around them.
• Identify bottlenecks and proactively improve systems.
• Stay calm and methodical when dealing with production issues.

What We’re Looking For

We're looking for someone who is:

• Curious about how systems work under the hood.
• Comfortable working across infrastructure, software, and cloud environments.
• Strong at troubleshooting and logical problem-solving.
• Detail-oriented when dealing with production systems.
• Comfortable communicating with developers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Proactive rather than waiting for someone to tell you what needs fixing.
• Comfortable taking ownership of systems and processes.
• Interested in continuously improving how engineering teams build and ship products.

Must-Haves

• 1-3+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, System Administration, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of Linux .
• Practical experience with Git and Git workflows .
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines .
• Experience with Docker and containerization .
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP .
• Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/IP, ports, firewalls, etc.
• Experience with deployment and production environments.
• Basic understanding of databases and application infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or similar .
• Understanding of environment variables, secrets, permissions, and basic security practices.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with engineering teams.
• Comfortable using AI tools as part of modern engineering workflows.

Good to Have

• Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
• AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC
• Nginx or similar reverse proxies
• Redis
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Sentry, or similar
• Infrastructure security and vulnerability management
• Experience with microservices
• Experience with mobile application deployment infrastructure
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads
• Experience with SaaS, AI, fintech, gaming, or enterprise products
• Experience working with international clients
• Kubernetes orchestration and Helm
• Strong understanding of cloud networking

What Success Looks Like

After joining Grayhat, success means:

• Deployments become faster, safer, and more predictable .
• CI/CD pipelines work reliably and require minimal manual intervention.
• Infrastructure is properly documented and reproducible.
• Production issues are detected quickly and resolved systematically.
• Monitoring and alerting give the team meaningful visibility into system health.
• Developers can focus on building products instead of fighting infrastructure.
• Infrastructure becomes more secure, scalable, and cost-efficient.
• You proactively identify problems before they become major incidents.
• You gradually take ownership of increasingly complex infrastructure and DevOps responsibilities.

One Last Thing

We're not looking for someone who simply knows a list of DevOps tools.

We're looking for an engineer who understands why those tools exist, how systems fit together, and how to make engineering teams better through automation and reliability .

If you enjoy breaking down difficult infrastructure problems, automating repetitive work, and making systems that just work , you'll fit right in.

Build the infrastructure. Automate the boring. Keep everything running.