Cloud Engineer for SaaS & IoT MVP

AWS DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for SaaS + IoT MVP

Project Overview

We are building an AWS-based MVP for a multi-tenant SaaS + IoT platform and are looking for an experienced DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support environment setup, deployment automation, monitoring, and security best practices.

This is a pragmatic MVP build, not a large enterprise deployment. We are looking for someone who can build a clean, secure, scalable foundation without unnecessary overengineering.

The platform includes:

- Multi-tenant SaaS web application
- Dockerized backend services
- PostgreSQL database
- MQTT-based telemetry ingestion
- IoT / LoRaWAN integrations
- Secure outbound integrations from edge systems
- Web-first MVP (mobile later)

Current State

- Backend development already in progress
- Product architecture defined
- Development team already working
- Looking for a DevOps partner to establish cloud foundation and deployment standards

Scope of Work

Phase 1 – Architecture Review

Review proposed MVP infrastructure and validate/recommend improvements for:

- Simplicity
- Security
- Cost optimization
- Scalability
- Reliability

We prefer practical recommendations over enterprise complexity.

Phase 2 – AWS Environment Setup

Set up:

- Development environment
- Staging environment
- Production environment

Including:

- VPC
- IAM roles
- Networking/security groups
- Secrets/configuration management
- SSL/TLS setup
- Environment isolation

Phase 3 – Container & Compute Setup

Deploy containerized workloads.

Preferred approach:

- Docker
- ECS Fargate (preferred)

Open to alternatives if clearly justified.

Infrastructure will support:

- APIs
- Background services
- Telemetry ingestion
- Supporting platform services

Phase 4 – Database & Storage

Set up:

- PostgreSQL (RDS preferred)
- Backup strategy
- Storage/log retention
- S3 where appropriate

Phase 5 – CI/CD Pipeline

Set up automated deployments.

Preferred:

- GitHub Actions
- Terraform (preferred)

Goals:

- Automated deployments
- Rollback capability
- Dev → Staging → Production promotion
- Minimal downtime deployments

Phase 6 – Monitoring & Security

Implement MVP operational readiness:

- Logging
- Monitoring
- Alerts
- CloudWatch dashboards
- Backup recommendations
- Security baseline
- Infrastructure health visibility

Ideal Candidate

Required:

- Strong AWS experience
- Docker
- ECS / Fargate
- PostgreSQL
- CI/CD pipelines
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure automation
- SaaS architecture experience

Strong Bonus:

- MQTT experience
- IoT platforms
- LoRaWAN familiarity
- Telemetry systems
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience

Important

We are intentionally trying to avoid overengineering.

For example:

- No Kubernetes/EKS unless strongly justified
- No unnecessary complexity
- Cost-conscious architecture preferred

We value:
Simple → Reliable → Secure → Scalable

Deliverables

Expected outputs:

1. AWS environments deployed
2. Infrastructure-as-Code setup
3. CI/CD pipeline configured
4. Monitoring and logging enabled
5. Documentation/runbook
6. Security baseline recommendations
7. Knowledge transfer session

To Apply

Please include:

1. Similar AWS SaaS projects completed
2. Experience with IoT/MQTT (if any)
3. Your recommended MVP architecture approach
4. Estimated effort/hours
5. Proposed timeline
6. Why you would choose (or not choose) ECS Fargate for this use case

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