DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - China Operations

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own and operate the Chinese version of our software infrastructure. You will be responsible for deploying, maintaining, and scaling our services within AWS China regions while ensuring compliance with local regulations and data sovereignty requirements.

Location & Eligibility

• Must be eligible to work in mainland China (Chinese citizenship strongly preferred due to data access requirements)

• Based in China with access to AWS China regions (cn-north-1, cn-northwest-1)

• Ability to obtain and manage ICP licensing and related regulatory compliance

• Technical Requirements

• Infrastructure as Code (Required)

• Strong experience with AWS CDK (TypeScript)

• Familiarity with multi-partition CDK deployments (aws and aws-cn partitions)

AWS China Experience (Required)

• Hands-on experience operating workloads in AWS China regions

• Understanding of AWS China's isolated network architecture and service differences

• Experience with:

• ECS container orchestration

• DynamoDB (auto-scaling, GSI, streams, PITR)

• Kinesis/Kinesis Firehose for real-time data streaming

• S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, EventBridge

• Route 53, CloudFront, API Gateway

• RDS Aurora PostgreSQL (serverless)

• IAM, Secrets Manager, VPC networking

Programming Languages (Required)

• C#/.NET (primary - 55+ services including core APIs, workers, and shared libraries)

• Familiarity with .NET 6.0+

• TypeScript/Node.js (secondary - APIs and tooling)

• Python (ML/data processing - algos, sensor normalization)

• Ability to read and troubleshoot application code across all three languages

• Containerization & CI/CD

• Docker and container orchestration (ECS)

• Codefresh or equivalent CI/CD platforms

• Experience managing 50+ microservices

Observability

• Datadog APM and logging (dd-trace)

• CloudWatch metrics and alarms

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation

• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch for log aggregation

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain our service fleet in AWS China regions

• Adapt existing CDK infrastructure for China-specific requirements

• Ensure data residency compliance and regulatory adherence

• Manage cross-region data synchronization where permitted

• Collaborate with US-based engineering teams on infrastructure changes

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response for China operations

• Optimize costs and performance for China-specific workloads

• Handle ICP licensing and related compliance requirements

• Mandarin and English proficiency for cross-team collaboration

• Nice to Have

• Experience with LaunchDarkly feature flag management

• Knowledge of ML/AI infrastructure (TensorFlow serving)

• Experience with IoT device telemetry at scale

• Our Stack Summary

• C#/.NET, TypeScript, Python

• IaC

• AWS CDK

• Compute

• ECS, Lambda, EC2

• Data

• DynamoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, Kinesis, S3

• Monitoring

• Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry

• CI/CD Codefresh, Docker