DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer at Kalon, you will own the infrastructure and deployment pipelines behind the web platforms we build for our clients. You will work closely with our development teams to automate workflows and monitor applications so we find problems before our clients do. Your role protects the reliability our customers count on and is integral to maintaining strong relationships with them. AI helps us ship more code than ever, and you'll use those same tools to keep our infrastructure and observability one step ahead.

This is a part-time contract role, roughly 20 hours per week.

Responsibilities

You'll stand up proactive monitoring and alerting with tools like New Relic or Datadog, so we catch issues before end users experience them
You'll define and maintain our Azure infrastructure as code
You'll build and improve CI/CD pipelines so teams can ship confidently and often
You'll help triage and resolve incidents, and make sure we learn something from each one
You'll collaborate with our development team to improve developer workflows
You'll participate in planning for future scalability and performance

Experience

Must Haves

Extensive hands-on experience with Azure (App Service, Azure SQL, Functions, storage, networking, and identity)
Experience defining infrastructure as code with Bicep, Terraform, or Pulumi
Experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
Experience implementing application and infrastructure monitoring, dashboards, and alerting — ideally with New Relic, Datadog, or Application Insights
Comfortable scripting in PowerShell or Bash
Experience with secrets management and secure deployment practices
Familiarity with agentic workflows and AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot

Nice to Haves

Experience deploying and operating .NET applications
Experience with observability practice beyond tooling — SLOs, tracing, log aggregation
Experience with cloud cost monitoring and optimization
Experience with data platform tooling like Azure Data Factory or Microsoft Fabric
Experience supporting compliance requirements such as HIPAA or SOC 2

Skills

You communicate well with clients and with a team
You are a proactive problem solver
You are self-motivated and can manage your own time
You can estimate tasks and be accountable to completing tasks within a sprint
You document what you build so the next person isn't guessing

Location

Remote, open to candidates in Europe, North America, and South America. You can set your own schedule, we just we ask for a few hours of daily overlap with US Eastern business hours.

Benefits

We care about more than just the work you do. We want you to be happy at your job and have time for the things you love outside of work.

Competitive Salary
401(k) matching
Top of the line hardware
Electronic adjustable height desk
Professional development budget
Flexible work from home/in-office schedule

Perks