Who We AreEmergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes.The MissionYou're building the infrastructure foundation that runs across a growing portfolio of B2B SaaS companies - not just maintaining existing pipelines, but designing the system from the ground up and making it production-ready for a team that ships fast.What You'll DoOwn and evolve cloud infrastructure on AWS - ECS Fargate, ECR, ALB, VPC, and Secrets Manager - provisioned through Terraform or AWS CDKBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions - Docker image builds, rolling deployments with health checks, and rollback proceduresManage the containerized production stack - Node 20, Express 5, BullMQ, Valkey, and Neon Postgres via pgBouncerOwn observability end to end - Grafana, Loki, Promtail, and CloudWatch - with alerting that catches issues before users report themDefine and enforce environment strategy - dev, staging, and production with proper isolation, branch protection, and deployment governanceHarden security posture - IAM scoping, AWS Secrets Manager, dependency scanning in CI, and SSL/TLS across all servicesMaintain Linux VPS and Windows Server infrastructure running Python automation services via systemd and NSSMWrite runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and incident response playbooks for all critical servicesWhat We're Looking ForMust-haves5+ years of hands-on production DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experienceShipped and maintained IaC using Terraform or AWS CDK on real production systemsDesigned CI/CD pipelines from scratch - not just maintained existing onesManaged containerized workloads in production using Docker and AWS ECSOwned an observability stack - structured logging, dashboards, and alerting - not just set it upHardened a production environment - secrets management, IAM policies, dependency scanning, SSL/TLSAdministered Linux servers in production - system design, process management, server hardeningResponded to and led resolution of production incidents with documented post-mortemsNice-to-havesPostgreSQL operations - connection pooling, pgBouncer, Neon serverlessBullMQ or Redis/Valkey in productionWindows Server administration - NSSM, Task SchedulerSnyk, Trivy, or equivalent dependency scanning in CIAWS Solutions Architect or equivalent certificationWho You AreYou've spent your career making infrastructure serve engineering teams, not the other way around. You write IaC from day one and build staging environments without being asked. You write runbooks before declaring a service production-ready. You've inherited broken infrastructure and measurably improved it. You care deeply about reliability and won't ship infrastructure you don't trust. You make architectural recommendations, not just implementation calls and you push back when the right answer is to simplify rather than build.What We OfferCompetitive salaryOwnership to define and decide infrastructure across Central and PortCos workstreams100% remote with flexible hours and async-first cultureProfessional development budget for AWS certifications and relevant toolingExposure to multiple SaaS businesses and scaling challenges across the portfolio
