DevOps Engineer | India - Remote | Full-Time

Who We Are
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.
What You'll Do
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

What We're Looking For
Must-haves
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

Nice-to-haves
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

Who You Are
You've spent your career making infrastructure serve engineering teams, not the other way around. You write IaC from day one and build staging environments without being asked. You write runbooks before declaring a service production-ready. You've inherited broken infrastructure and measurably improved it. You care deeply about reliability and won't ship infrastructure you don't trust. You make architectural recommendations, not just implementation calls and you push back when the right answer is to simplify rather than build.
What We Offer
Competitive salary

Ownership to define and decide infrastructure across Central and PortCos workstreams

100% remote with flexible hours and async-first culture

Professional development budget for AWS certifications and relevant tooling

Exposure to multiple SaaS businesses and scaling challenges across the portfolio