Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Croatia.

📋 Description

• Design and establish a robust, scalable AWS infrastructure to facilitate system migrations and support platform growth.

• Take ownership of production reliability, performance, security, uptime, incident resolution, and capacity planning.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and utilize infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Chef.

• Monitor system health using Prometheus, Grafana, and DataDog; establish metrics and incident-response playbooks.

• Promote security-first practices in infrastructure, address vulnerabilities, and drive compliance with SOC 2 standards.

• Collaborate with engineering teams on operational needs and architectural decisions.

• Advocate for the adoption of AI within DevOps and SRE workflows.

• Engage in a weekly on-call rotation, troubleshoot complex incidents, lead root cause analyses, and implement preventative measures.

• Report directly to the Senior DevOps Manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail, along with multi-account management and SSO.

• Proficient in Terraform for implementing infrastructure-as-code.

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef or Ansible.

• Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory, and Jenkins.

• Understanding of GitOps methodologies.

• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, or EKS.

• Strong working knowledge of monitoring solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog.

• Excellent troubleshooting abilities, with experience in leading root cause analyses and implementing effective fixes.

• Proficient in reading languages such as Java, Ruby, Bash/Zsh, HCL, Python, and JavaScript.

• Familiarity with SOC 2 compliance and security-first infrastructure practices.

• Comfortable participating in a weekly on-call rotation.

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience is considered an additional qualification.

• Strong candidates may also have experience with migrating workloads to AWS, Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, .NET, MongoDB replica sets, ISO 27001, Layer 7 load balancing, Terragrunt, or hospitality technology.

🏝️ Benefits

• Investment in AI tools and opportunities to evaluate and implement DevOps technologies.

• A diverse, distributed team and an inclusive workplace culture.

• Opportunities for senior engineers to influence the development of the platform.

• Flexible remote work model.