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SRE/DevOps Engineer

Vaco
$70,000.00 - $80,000.00 / yr
United States, North Carolina, Raleigh
Jan 28, 2026
SRE / DevOps Engineer

Location: Raleigh, NC (Hybrid)
Experience Level: 2-3 years

About the Role

This role joins an infrastructure-focused engineering team responsible for building and scaling a reliable technical foundation for fast-moving development teams. Rather than simply maintaining systems, you'll help shape an environment that enables rapid delivery, strong reliability, and smooth operational performance.

You'll collaborate closely with product engineering on deployment approaches, observability practices, performance tuning, and infrastructure design. This position offers meaningful ownership over the technical choices that influence how the platform evolves and supports modern, AI-enhanced development workflows.

What You'll Do
  • Design and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure) with reliability and scalability as core principles
  • Build and support Infrastructure-as-Code environments using Terraform
  • Develop and improve observability systems-monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing
  • Optimize Postgres database performance, including schema design, query tuning, and capacity planning
  • Manage container environments using Kubernetes or AWS ECS, along with CI/CD deployment pipelines
  • Partner with engineering teams on reliability best practices, deployment patterns, and incident response
  • Help foster a culture where reliability and development speed work together, not against each other
What We're Looking For Required
  • 2-3 years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience in production environments
  • Strong knowledge of a major cloud provider (AWS or Azure)
  • Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code, preferably Terraform
  • Working familiarity with container orchestration tools (Kubernetes or AWS ECS)
  • Comfort with databases, including SQL writing, schema design, performance tuning, and query optimization
  • Programming experience with at least one language (Python, Go, or TypeScript preferred, but depth matters more than specific languages)
Nice to Have
  • Experience with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.)
  • Background in optimizing systems for cost, latency, or resource utilization
  • Contributions to open-source SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure tooling
  • Experience supporting fast iteration cycles and high deployment velocity
Why This Role Is Compelling

You'll have the opportunity to meaningfully influence technical direction, shaping how infrastructure, reliability, and developer workflows evolve. You'll work with a focused, collaborative team and contribute to thoughtful, sustainable engineering practices while helping enable a modern, AI-supported development environment.

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

Privacy Notice

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.

  • California residents may access Vaco by Highspring HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
  • Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
  • Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
  • Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
  • Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

  • the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
  • licensure and certification requirements;
  • office location and other geographic considerations;
  • other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

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