DevOps Engineer

Thistle Draftshop is a craft beer bar, scratch kitchen, and community-focused gathering space. The company is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure systems supporting its digital presence and operations, including infrastructure-as-code, CI pipelines, monitoring, Linux server administration, incident analysis, automation, security, backups, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and managing infrastructure-as-code environments
• Improving CI pipelines
• Ensuring stable deployments for applications and internal tools
• Monitor system performance
• Manage Linux-based servers
• Perform root cause analysis for incidents
• Optimize configurations for reliability and cost efficiency
• Collaborates with software developers, operations, and leadership to automate workflows, enhance observability, and implement best practices in security, backups, and disaster recovery
• Contribute to documentation and continuous improvements in development and release processes

Requirements:

• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
• Experience in Software Development and scripting (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript) for automation and tooling
• Hands-on practice with Continuous Integration and delivery pipelines using platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
• Solid System Administration background, including managing Linux servers and troubleshooting production environments
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization/orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch) and performance tuning
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, security best practices, and infrastructure resilience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to work independently in a remote setting, communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, and document processes
• Previous experience in a small business, hospitality, or retail environment is a plus but not required