Description:

The Staff DevOps position at Neon focuses on enhancing Developer Experience (DevEx) and is a remote role within the Technology, Acquisition & Banking – Platform Engineering team.
The role involves developing automations, optimizing costs, and improving the developer experience to ensure a scalable, resilient, and efficient environment.
Key responsibilities include developing infrastructure as code (IaC) using GitOps, AWX, and Terraform for a standardized and maintainable environment.
The candidate will ensure the resilience and observability of engineering tools using Prometheus, Grafana, and on-call monitoring.
The role requires improving developer experience through efficient tools, optimized pipelines, and simplified deployment and monitoring processes.
Implementing FinOps practices to reduce infrastructure costs by 15 to 30% on AWS using Karpenter, KEDA, and autoscaling is essential.
The candidate will standardize the observability stack to ensure the availability of metrics, logs, and traces for troubleshooting and performance tuning.
Working with Cloud-Native and DevOps technologies such as Istio, Kong, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and HashiCorp Vault to ensure security and scalability is required.
Collaboration with engineering teams to define deployment, security, and governance standards is also a key responsibility.

Requirements:

Candidates must have solid experience with AWS and Kubernetes, including KEDA and Karpenter.
A deep understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and AlertManager is required.
Experience in automation and IaC with Terraform, AWX, and GitOps is necessary.
Knowledge of distributed systems architecture, service mesh, and API security (Istio, Kong, HashiCorp Vault) is essential.
Candidates should have experience in DevEx and improving tools/processes for development.
Familiarity with messaging and event-driven architectures (Kafka and RabbitMQ) is required.
Strong expertise in FinOps with a focus on cost optimization in AWS is necessary.
The ability to solve complex infrastructure problems while ensuring resilience and high availability is essential.
Candidates must demonstrate the ability to collaborate with teams, promoting technical maturity and best practices.
Adaptability to handle different scenarios and challenges in a dynamic environment is important.
A results-oriented focus with the ability to prioritize impactful tasks is required.
Autonomy and collaboration skills to work productively in a remote model are essential.

The position offers a genuine remote work model, with team meetings every three months in São Paulo, along with a budget for home office equipment and partnerships for coworking spaces.
Employees receive a Flash Card, allowing customization of benefits including meal and food vouchers, mobility assistance, and educational support.
Access to Gympass, providing a network of gyms and online classes is included.
Parental support is offered through childcare assistance or nanny support and extended parental leave.
Medical and dental assistance is provided to employees.
Open English offers exclusive discounts on language classes for employees and their dependents.
Discounts on MBAs and specializations at USP ESALQ are available for employees.