DevOps Specialist

Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong technical background and a proven track record of designing, implementing, and operating complex, scalable technology environments.

The ideal candidate will be a key technical reference within the engineering organisation, contributing to architecture decisions, establishing technical standards, driving automation, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of our platforms.

Mandatory Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a closely related field.
• Proven experience working with complex, distributed, and highly scalable environments.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud architectures, preferably AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD, including the design and optimisation of deployment pipelines.
• Advanced Linux and systems administration knowledge.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, IAM, authentication, and access management.
• Hands-on experience with observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and incident management.
• Strong experience with Git and modern software development workflows.
• Solid scripting/programming skills in languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar.
• Experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and the integration of security into the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Experience implementing and maintaining production-grade platforms and environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical direction of the DevOps and platform environment.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient infrastructure architectures.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, best practices, and technical guidelines.
• Drive the adoption of automation across infrastructure, deployments, testing, and operational processes.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Own and improve the organization's cloud and infrastructure strategy.
• Lead technical initiatives involving Kubernetes, cloud platforms, IaC, observability, security, and automation.
• Identify technical risks and proactively implement solutions to improve system reliability and performance.
• Drive improvements in system availability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in architectural decisions and technical evaluations of new technologies.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Product teams.
• Act as a technical point of reference for complex DevOps and infrastructure challenges.
• Mentor and support other engineers, promoting knowledge sharing and strong engineering practices.
• Participate in incident analysis, root-cause investigations, and the implementation of long-term corrective actions.

Technical Expertise

The successful candidate is expected to have strong expertise across several of the following areas:

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS, Azure, or GCP
• VPC/VNet, networking, load balancing, DNS, IAM
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Cloud security and cost optimization

Containers & Orchestration

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm
• Container security and orchestration

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Terraform
• Ansible or similar configuration management tools
• Infrastructure automation and provisioning
• GitOps practices

CI/CD

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar
• Automated build, test, deployment, and release processes
• Deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments

Observability & Reliability

• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, New Relic, or similar
• Metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards
• SLI/SLO concepts
• Incident response and root-cause analysis

Security

• IAM and secrets management
• Network security
• Vulnerability management
• Secure CI/CD pipelines
• DevSecOps practices

Development & Automation

• Strong Bash and/or Python
• Working knowledge of Go or another programming language is a plus
• Git and Git-based development workflows

Leadership & Collaboration

• Ability to provide technical direction and influence engineering decisions.
• Comfortable owning complex initiatives from definition through implementation.
• Ability to establish technical standards and drive their adoption across teams.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong mentoring and knowledge-sharing capabilities.
• Comfortable challenging existing approaches and proposing pragmatic improvements.
• Ability to balance technical excellence, business priorities, scalability, and delivery timelines.

Nice to Have

• Experience in SRE or Platform Engineering environments.
• Experience operating large-scale production platforms.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with service mesh technologies.
• Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging systems.
• Experience with database infrastructure and performance optimization.
• Relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications.
• Experience working in international, distributed engineering teams.