Platform Context & Requirements

We operate on AWS with ECS, and strong hands-on AWS experience is mandatory.

Essential comfort with: ✔ AWS production environments ✔ ECS & containerized services ✔ GitHub Actions ✔ Terraform/OpenTofu ✔ CI/CD pipelines ✔ Linux & networking ✔ Production debugging ✔ Secrets/vaults, VPNs, access control, and operational security ✔ Observability (metrics, logs, traces)

Strategic migration toward Kubernetes is under consideration—your experience here is a strong plus, but we need a clear migration path and judgment around trade-offs (simplification vs. complexity).

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Your Profile

Beyond ChatGPT

We’re not looking for anyone treating AI like a magical workaround. Instead, we need engineers who can integrate AI agents responsibly into workflows.

Agentic Engineering Requirements

You should be able to:

• Deconstruct operational challenges into smaller tasks for AI-assisted resolution
• Give agents clear context, repo structure, constraints, and success criteria
• Use agents for deep resource analysis, including:
  • Code, infrastructure definitions, CI/CD pipelines, logs, and live services
• Verify (not blindly trust) agent outputs
• Turn agent insights into production-grade, safe fixes
• Implement human-in-the-loop workflows, where agents propose changes but humans approve or reject risky actions
• Know when an agent isn’t needed

Key AI Workflow Examples

✅ Incident Diagnostics

• An agent interprets CI failures, ECS task logs, application errors, and commit history before deploying fixes. ✅ Automated Changes
• An agent suggests a Terraform update, but changes are submitted as a PR with tests & rollback notes. ✅ Runbook Enhancement
• After an incident, the agent updates runbooks using trace data, metrics, and historical logs. ✅ Service Mapping
• An agent contrasts repo structures, infra-as-code, and live configuration to generate an initial service map.

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Required Experience

• Deep hands-on expertise in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or production operations
• Strong AWS production experience
• ECS & containerized service exposure
• GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow management
• Terraform/OpenTofu proficiency
• CI/CD, Linux system tuning, & networking debugging
• Observability maturity across metrics, logs, and traces
• Ability to write production-grade code/scripts in:
  • TypeScript
  • Bash
• Comfort modifying infra-as-code, CI/CD as code, and application systems
• Strong validated judgment for:
  • Production risk mitigation
  • Automation guardrails
  • Permissions management
  • Safe rollback strategies

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Nice-to-Haves

✅ Kubernetes experience ✅ Ruby (useful for some legacy systems) ✅ Internal dev platforms (e.g., self-service infra or GitOps tools) ✅ Practical experience with AI agent prompts, repo-level instructions, or agent controls ✅ Work to improve incident response, deployment safety, or on-call quality

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What Success Looks Like (In 3–6 Months)

✔ Deployment brittleness is reduced—fewer manual overrides needed ✔ Engineers spend less time blocked by op uncertainties ✔ Production environment is easier to understand (clarified docs, maps, dashboards) ✔ CI/CD speeds up with more reliable feedback ✔ Agentic workflows exist safely—used for debugging, deploy prep, and ops improv ✔ Clear boundaries define agent access (e.g., read/write permissions, advisory gateways) ✔ All production changes are auditable, reviewable, and reversible by design

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What We Do Not Want

❌ Avoid if:

You:

• Only handle infra manually
• See AI as magic (without step-by-step constraints)
• Prioritize tech demos over production stability
• Can’t explain how to scale, monitor, test, and roll back automation
• Believe agentic engineering means eliminating humans from decisions
• Suggest cutting controls for “faster development”

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At CopeCart, You Can Expect

🏠 Remote & Flexibility – Work from anywhere, trust-based autonomy—no micromanagement; ownership = flexibility.

ℹ Room for Impact – Tackle high-ownership challenges daily. Ideas welcome: We reward innovation & creative problem solving.

🎁 Benefits – Competitive company pension plan + attractive corporate benefits.

💪 Company Fitness – Unlimited gym, studio, pool, yoga, CrossFit & bouldering access via EGYM Wellpass (Germany & Austria).

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team Events – Hybrid & in-person retreats for networking and team-building outside of work.

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Application Hint

Answer this in your cover note:

🗣 “Who are you? What do you hope to learn, or how will you drive forward each stage of this role? What’s your drive, and what keeps you going in your work?”

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Equal Opportunity Employer

We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.

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