DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote |
Type: Full-time |
Compensation: Competitive salary + stock options

🚀 About VELZI AI

At VELZI AI
, we’re redefining finance for the modern business. Our mission is to eliminate manual accounting through advanced AI automation. From procurement to real‑time financial reporting, our intelligent SaaS platform streamlines every operational workflow, so companies can focus on growth, not spreadsheets.

We’re a fast‑growing, AI‑driven fintech startup backed by innovation and a clear, ambitious vision. Now, we’re searching for a Dev Ops Engineer to help us scale our infrastructure, ensure reliability, and power our next generation of AI‑driven financial systems.

💼 About the Role

As a Dev Ops Engineer at VELZI AI
, you’ll build, maintain, and scale a secure, cloud‑native infrastructure across GCP, Azure, and AWS
. You’ll work closely with our engineering team to ensure seamless deployment pipelines, reliable environments, and high‑performance systems that support our AI and fintech applications.

You’ll be the backbone of our infrastructure and enabling fast iteration, smooth deployments, and resilient architectures.

🔧 What You’ll Do

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Cloud Infrastructure & Systems

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure across GCP, Azure, and AWS
• Manage and optimize compute environments including Virtual Machines
  , Cloud Run
  , and container orchestration platforms
• Architect scalable, multi‑region solutions with high availability, redundancy, and strong security practices
• Manage and monitor cloud storage solutions such as GCP Cloud Storage
  , Azure Blob Storage
  , and AWS S3

🐳
Containers, Orchestration & Scaling

• Build, deploy, and manage containers using Docker
• Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes (GKE / AKS / EKS)
• Implement auto‑scaling strategies, load balancing, and autoschedulers
• Optimize resource utilization and cost efficiency across environments

🔄
CI/CD, Automation & Deployment

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, or similar)
• Automate deployments, updates, rollbacks, and environment provisioning
• Create infrastructure‑as‑code using tools like Terraform or Pulumi
• Push our platform toward full automation and self‑healing systems

🔌
Networking, Security & Integrations

• Configure VPCs, VPNs, firewalls, DNS, subnets, and secure routing
• Ensure secure API communication between our Next.js app and backend services
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Logging, Azure Monitor, Cloud Watch, etc.)
• Ensure compliance, data protection, and identity management across clouds
• Work with Firebase Authentication
  , secure API gateways, and IAM policies

⚙️
Backend, APIs & System Support

• Collaborate with engineers to support API creation and deployments
• Optimize performance of server environments running in Cloud Run or VMs
• Implement failover systems, disaster recovery, and backup strategies
• Ensure reliable operation of services including SES / Send Grid
  , databases, and microservices

🤝
Collaboration & Reliability Engineering

• Work closely with backend, AI, and product teams to support rapid iteration
• Establish Dev Ops best practices, guidelines, and internal documentation
• Conduct root‑cause analysis, implement fixes, and prevent future incidents
• Help shape the engineering culture by improving processes, scalability, and system observability

✅ What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience as a Dev Ops Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer
• Strong experience with GCP, Azure, and/or AWS (multi‑cloud experience is a huge plus)
• In‑depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Run, and container‑based application delivery
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and automation frameworks
• Solid understanding of networking, firewalls, DNS, and cloud security models
• Experience with VM deployment
  , Cloud Run (or similar), autoscaling, and infra optimization
• Strong understanding of cloud storage solutions (Blob, S3, Cloud Storage)
• Experience with Authentication
  , IAM, or identity systems is a bonus
• Understanding of API architecture, microservices, and distributed systems
• Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or other infrastructure‑as‑code tools
• Bonus:
  Experience with observability stacks, Fin…