DevOps Engineer - India - Remote - Full-Time
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About the role
Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes. The Mission You're building the infrastructure foundation that runs across a growing portfolio of B2B SaaS companies - not just maintaining existing pipelines, but designing the system from the ground up and making it production-ready for a team that ships fast.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve cloud infrastructure on AWS - ECS Fargate, ECR, ALB, VPC, and Secrets Manager - provisioned through Terraform or AWS CDK
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions - Docker image builds, rolling deployments with health checks, and rollback procedures
- Manage the containerized production stack - Node 20, Express 5, BullMQ, Valkey, and Neon Postgres via pgBouncer
- Own observability end to end - Grafana, Loki, Promtail, and CloudWatch - with alerting that catches issues before users report them
- Define and enforce environment strategy - dev, staging, and production with proper isolation, branch protection, and deployment governance
- Harden security posture - IAM scoping, AWS Secrets Manager, dependency scanning in CI, and SSL/TLS across all services
- Maintain Linux VPS and Windows Server infrastructure running Python automation services via systemd and NSSM
- Write runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and incident response playbooks for all critical services
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on production DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience
- Shipped and maintained IaC using Terraform or AWS CDK on real production systems
- Designed CI/CD pipelines from scratch - not just maintained existing ones
- Managed containerized workloads in production using Docker and AWS ECS
- Owned an observability stack - structured logging, dashboards, and alerting - not just set it up
- Hardened a production environment - secrets management, IAM policies, dependency scanning, SSL/TLS
- Administered Linux servers in production - system design, process management, server hardening
- Responded to and led resolution of production incidents with documented post-mortems
- PostgreSQL operations - connection pooling, pgBouncer, Neon serverless
- BullMQ or Redis/Valkey in production
- Windows Server administration - NSSM, Task Scheduler
- Snyk, Trivy, or equivalent dependency scanning in CI
- AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent certification
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