Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes)

Top 3 reasons to join us

• High salary
• Flexible environment
• Using latest technologies

Job description

About Us

We're not just building products, we're building a place where people grow. Personal development isn't a perk here, it's a priority. Every team member levels up alongside the company through hands-on projects, cutting-edge tools, and industry best practices.

Our clients expect excellence, and that standard shapes everything we do from the infrastructure we design to the culture we cultivate.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who's ready to take ownership of our infrastructure, solve tough problems at scale, and build the foundation that lets our teams ship products people actually love using.

This isn't a "keep the lights on" role. You'll shape how we build, deploy, and operate influencing architecture decisions, championing reliability, and raising the bar for the entire engineering organization.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect & Automate: Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure (AWS, DigitalOcean, or similar) using Infrastructure as Code. You'll own the full lifecycle from initial provisioning to ongoing drift detection and iterative improvement.
• CI/CD Ownership: Own and continuously evolve our CI/CD pipelines to maximize developer productivity. This includes ensuring fast, reliable, and automated releases while integrating quality gates, security scanning, and progressive delivery strategies (canary, blue/green, feature flags).
• Container Orchestration: Manage and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle management, resource optimization (HPA, VPA, pod disruption budgets), networking, and storage not just deploying, but deeply understanding how things run in production.
• Observability & Reliability: Build and maintain a comprehensive observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry. Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs to make reliability measurable, not just aspirational.
• Security Integration (DevSecOps): Embed security into every layer — from image scanning and secrets management to RBAC hardening and network policies. You'll champion a shift-left security culture rather than treating it as an afterthought.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Partner closely with development teams to optimize application performance, deployment strategies, and developer experience. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and advocate for DevOps principles across the organization.
• Incident Response & Continuous Improvement: Participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts. Drive blameless post-mortems that result in actionable improvements not just documentation.
• Cost Optimization & FinOps: Proactively monitor cloud resource usage, implement right-sizing strategies, and establish tagging and budget controls. You'll ensure we scale efficiently without burning through budget.

Your skills and experience

Must-Haves

• Experience: 5+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles, with at least 2 years operating at a senior or lead level (mentoring, architectural decision-making, cross-team collaboration).
• Cloud Proficiency: Proven, hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred, Azure, GCP, or DigitalOcean), including compute, storage, networking, IAM design, cost optimization/FinOps awareness, and multi-account or multi-project governance (e.g., AWS Organizations, Landing Zones).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expertise in IaC tools such as Terraform (preferred), Pulumi, or CloudFormation, with experience writing modular, reusable, and version-controlled infrastructure with proper state management and drift detection. Familiarity with GitOps delivery models using tools like FluxCD or ArgoCD.
• CI/CD: Strong experience designing, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins), including pipeline security (secret management, SAST/DAST integration, artifact signing, supply-chain security) and progressive delivery strategies (canary, blue/green, feature flags).
• Containerization & Orchestration: Deep proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes in production, including cluster lifecycle management, Helm charts/Kustomize/operator patterns, resource management (requests/limits, HPA, VPA, pod disruption budgets), and debugging production workloads at the scheduling, networking (CNI), and storage (CSI) level.
• Observability & Reliability: Hands-on experience building observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or the ELK stack. Experience defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs/error budgets, with proven incident response and blameless post-mortem experience.
• Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting skills in two or more of Python, Go, or Bash, with the ability to build internal tooling, custom controllers/operators, or CLI utilities that improve developer experience.
• Security Mindset: Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices — image scanning, runtime security (Falco, etc.), secrets management (Vault, SOPS, Sealed Secrets), RBAC hardening, network policies, and understanding of compliance-as-code principles and policy engines (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno).
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills with a systematic, documented approach to resolving complex issues. Ability to translate infrastructure decisions into business impact for non-technical stakeholders, with a track record of improving Developer Experience (DX) through internal platforms, self-service tooling, and golden paths.

Nice-to-Haves

• Professional cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA/CKAD/CKS).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium Service Mesh).
• Experience managing and automating relational databases in production (PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS/Aurora), including backup strategies, replication, and migrations.
• Strong understanding of networking principles — VPC design, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancers, firewalls, CDN, and zero-trust networking concepts.
• Exposure to chaos engineering practices (Litmus, Chaos Monkey, Gremlin).
• Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes architectures.
• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts — internal developer portals (Backstage), self-service infrastructure, and API-driven provisioning.
• Contributions to open-source DevOps/infrastructure projects.

Why you'll love working here

• Above industry standard salaries.
• Friendly working environment and flexible working hours.
• 13th salary, insurance and team building activities.
• We work hand-in-hand with our clients to fully invest in their product development and build solutions together for their target market.
• We fully invest in our team, we will help you build yourself up in any area you feel you need development, be it in English, learning a new design tool, developing your design thinking and more. We want to make sure that you’re always learning and developing yourself whilst a part of our team.
• We respect both Product and Technology equally, ensuring all of the Products we work on have features with true market potential and ensuring all of the team contribute to, understand and believe in what they are developing.
• We respect you and your personal hours, we keep sustainable pace by working standard 8 hour days from Monday to Friday, ensuring we only plan for what we can achieve.
• We are fully agile, working with set sprint goals and working at our rate of velocity.
• You will have ownership over your role, giving you the opportunity to experiment and try new processes to better improve your day-to-day responsibilities. We are always open to improving our processes.