DevOps Engineer

Solvd is an AI-first advisory and digital engineering firm delivering measurable business impact through strategic digital transformation. Taking an AI-first approach, we bridge the critical gap between experimentation and real ROI, weaving artificial intelligence into everything we do and helping clients at all stages accelerate AI integration into each process layer. Our mission is to empower passionate people to thrive in the era of AI while maintaining rigorous ethical AI standards. We’re supported by a global team with offices in the USA, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia.

We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with deep experience in eCommerce infrastructure, AWS cloud-native services, and CDN/WAF management, ideally Fastly VCL (Varnish Configuration Language). You will play a key role in maintaining, optimizing, and evolving our digital commerce platform to deliver fast, secure, and scalable customer experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure to support high-availability, high-traffic eCommerce applications.
• Manage and configure Fastly CDN services, including writing, testing, and optimizing VCL code for caching, routing, and security use cases.
• Collaborate with developers and site reliability engineers to improve site performance, latency, monitoring, alerting, and uptime.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS SDK.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot infrastructure issues across AWS and CDN layers.
• Automate infrastructure operations, deployment workflows, health checks and incident response.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and application rollouts in collaboration with DevOps and engineering teams.
• Maintain security best practices including IAM, network controls, and data protection standards.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident management for infrastructure-related issues.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Route 53, etc.).
• 2+ years of experience configuring and managing Fastly CDN, including custom VCL scripting and Distributed Compute services and/or applicable web development experience.
• Strong knowledge of web caching, HTTP/2, TLS, and CDN optimization techniques.
• Solid scripting and automation experience with Node.js, Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies and certificate management (Docker, ECS, EKS).
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic).
• Understanding of CI/CD processes and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, especially in high-traffic environments.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• On-call rotation (overnight US time) - every 1.5-2 months.

Optional requirements:

• Experience in a large-scale retail or eCommerce environment.
• Node.js experience preferred.
• Knowledge of edge security practices such as WAF configuration, bot protection, or TLS management.
• Experience with performance tuning and synthetic monitoring.
• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect).