DevOps Engineer

Note: First 2 months of the internship period is unpaid to check skills and willingness of the intern to work in rigourous StartUp Environment. Please apply at your own risk and willingness. About Hoplid

Hoplid will experience concentrated traffic spikes, especially around food-ordering periods. The DevOps Engineer will build

infrastructure that keeps the platform available, secure, observable and cost-efficient.

Role Mission

Make Hoplid deployable, observable, secure and capable of scaling without infrastructure becoming a

bottleneck or uncontrolled expense.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and operate production cloud infrastructure.

• Containerize services with Docker.

• Build GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

• Manage Linux servers and application runtime environments.

• Configure networking, TLS, secrets and service access.

• Operate PostgreSQL and Redis infrastructure with the Backend Engineer.

• Design backups and disaster-recovery procedures.

• Implement monitoring, alerting and logs.

• Use Sentry and later Prometheus/Grafana where appropriate.

• Perform k6 load and capacity tests.

• Implement rate limits, edge protection and secure configuration.

• Run Dependabot and Trivy security checks.

• Investigate production incidents.

• Continuously optimize infrastructure cost.

Scaling Responsibilities

• Support multiple FastAPI instances behind a load balancer.

• Identify CPU, memory, database, Redis, network and queue bottlenecks.

• Support CDN and object-storage architecture for photos and videos.

• Separate background workloads from latency-sensitive API requests.

• Work with the Backend Engineer on connection pooling, caching and database scaling.

• Maintain staging and production environments.

Required Skills

• Linux administration.

• Docker.

• Git/GitHub.

• CI/CD.

• Cloud infrastructure.

• Networking fundamentals.

• TLS/SSL and secrets management.

• PostgreSQL and Redis operations.

• Monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Security fundamentals.

• Load testing.

Preferred Skills

• AWS, Hetzner or comparable cloud.

• Cloudflare.

• R2/CDN.

• GitHub Actions.

• Sentry.

• Prometheus/Grafana.

• Terraform.

• Kubernetes when genuinely required.

• k6.

• Trivy.

• Dependabot.

Primary Ownership

• Cloud infrastructure.

• CI/CD.

• Production reliability.

• Monitoring and alerting.

• Security operations.

• Backups and disaster recovery.

• Capacity planning.

Backup Responsibilities

• Debug and patch FastAPI services.

• Assist with PostgreSQL and Redis issues.

• Support backend deployment and production incidents.

Team Context

You — Founder / Product / Flutter: the founder owns the Flutter frontend and product direction. This role works closely with the other three engineering roles. Critical systems must always have a primary owner and a capable backup.

Engineering Principle

Hoplid uses overlapping skill sets deliberately. Each engineer has a clear primary profession while maintaining enough adjacent knowledge to support another engineer when required.