Freelance Developer Operations Engineer Jobs in California

Job Description

About the role:

The DevOps Engineer on the Duro Design team builds and operates the infrastructure platform that enables hardware engineers to ship with confidence every day. You'll own the environments, pipelines, clusters, and databases that power our modern stack-ensuring everything is scalable, secure, and reliable. This role partners closely with engineering, security, and product teammates in a fast-moving, highly autonomous environment.

We're looking for engineers who think in systems, embrace automation, and leverage modern AI-powered workflows to deliver resilient, production-grade infrastructure. This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles, CA (3 days per week in office).

A day in the life of our DevOps Engineer:

Environment Ownership: Provision and manage multi-tenant and dedicated customer environments on AWS using DuploCloud, ensuring isolation, scalability, and reliability.

CI/CD Engineering: Design, optimize, and maintain GitHub Actions pipelines to enable fast, reliable daily deployments with tight feedback loops.

Kubernetes Operations: Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters, managing autoscaling policies, resource allocation, and health monitoring.

Database Reliability: Own PostgreSQL operations including provisioning, migrations, backups, replication, performance tuning, and disaster recovery strategies.

Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes manifests.

Security Implementation: Partner with SecOps and CISO leadership to implement encryption policies, IAM configurations, VPC segmentation, logging, monitoring, and compliance-driven infrastructure controls across AWS and GovCloud.

Observability & Monitoring: Establish dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to maintain high availability and reduce incident frequency and recovery time.

AI-Driven Infrastructure Engineering: Leverage AI-augmented workflows to generate infrastructure modules, refine deployment scripts, and accelerate operational improvements while maintaining rigorous validation standards.

Continuous Improvement: Evaluate and integrate new tooling, improve provisioning strategies, and evolve infrastructure to support scale, compliance, and long-term system resilience.

Qualifications

Who We're Looking For

Required:

• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering with hands-on production ownership
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Deep expertise in AWS (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch) including experience in commercial and GovCloud environments
• Strong Kubernetes experience managing clusters in production environments
• Hands-on PostgreSQL operational experience including migrations, backup/recovery, replication, and performance tuning
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure as code proficiency with Terraform and containerization tools such as Docker
• Strong systems thinking and ability to design scalable, secure, and maintainable infrastructure platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort operating in autonomous, fast-paced environments
• A service-oriented mindset focused on enabling engineering teams to ship quickly and safely

Nice to Have:

• Experience with DuploCloud or similar tenant management platforms
• Experience building infrastructure for PLM, PDM, or hardware/manufacturing industry software
• Background supporting on-premises or compliance-driven deployments
• Familiarity with event-driven systems (NATS, Redis, Kafka)
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, PostHog, or Sentry
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, FedRAMP, or ITAR
• Experience implementing zero-downtime deployment strategies

How We Build

We don't just ship features. We build platforms that make shipping inevitable.

At Duro, AI is integrated into our engineering workflows. Engineers leverage AI-powered development environments to orchestrate tasks, structure infrastructure context, and accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards of operational excellence.

We value:

Architectural intuition - understanding distributed systems before implementing them

Precision in communication - clear infrastructure design produces reliable systems

Pattern recognition - knowing when to abstract, automate, or simplify

Operational discipline - building systems that are observable, resilient, and self-healing

Intellectual curiosity - continuously improving how we build and scale

We optimize for engineers who can design infrastructure that fades into the background-enabling teams to deploy daily without friction, uncertainty, or operational drag.

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $150,000-$160,000. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose 'To Make Our Lives Easier.' As the industry's leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, 'To Make Our Lives Easier.'     
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people's lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose 'To Make Our Lives Easier.' As the industry's leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, 'To Make Our Lives Easier.'     
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people's lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.