Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer
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Job Description
About Us..
We are a cutting-edge startup gaming operator who is passionate about social gaming. Our goal is to provide players with the best gaming experiences possible whether looking for fun and excitement or the chance to win big prizes. The organisation is going through one of its most important recruitment drives as it builds a world-class team to accelerate growth.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will own our cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines end-to-end. Your mission is to keep our AWS-hosted services secure scalable observable and cost-efficient while enabling rapid reliable software delivery. Youll collaborate closely with engineering QA and product teams to embed DevOps best practices throughout the SDLC and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Tasks
Key Responsibilities
Area
What Youll Do
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
Design and operate secure highly available and cost-effective environments on AWS (EC2 S3 IAM Lambda Amplify CloudFront RDS /Aurora ElastiCache VPC).
Automate provisioning with CloudFormation (and Terraform/OpenTofu where applicable).
Implement robust security controls using IAM CloudTrail WAF Secrets Manager and .
CI/CD & Automation
Build and maintain GitHub Actions pipelines for test build scan deploy and rollback flows.
Containerize apps with Docker / Docker-Compose; orchestrate via ECS (using ECR).
Embed static analysis and container-security scans (Trivy Hadolint Semgrep Syft/Grype) and publish artifacts to S3.
Application Deployment
Deploy scale and monitor TypeScript and Python services across multiple environments.
Manage configuration secrets and zero-downtime releases.
Observability & Incident Response
Implement metrics logs traces and synthetic tests with CloudWatch New Relic and custom Lambda/EventBridge handlers.
Set up proactive alerting dashboards and runbooks to ensure 99.9 % uptime.
Data & Backup
Administer PostgreSQL (Aurora) and Redis (ElastiCache); automate snapshots disaster recovery drills and performance tuning.
Networking & Edge
Configure VPCs subnets security groups VPN (NordLayer) and Cloudflare DNS/WAF/Workers.
Optimize edge delivery via CloudFront and Amplify.
Collaboration & Governance
Work daily with Jira & Confluence for ticketing and documentation.
Mentor engineers on DevOps practices and champion Infrastructure-as-Code GitOps and security-by-design principles.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- Experience: 5 years in DevOps SRE or cloud infrastructure roles with production AWS workloads.
- Core AWS Services: Hands-on with IAM EC2 (Linux) S3 Lambda CloudFormation VPC RDS / Aurora (PostgreSQL) ElastiCache CloudFront Amplify CloudWatch EventBridge SNS.
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker Docker-Compose ECS ECR.
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions expertise (build test deploy notifications).
- IaC & Scripting: CloudFormation (author & modify stacks) bash/zsh scripting; working knowledge of TypeScript Python.
- Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch (Logs Metrics Alarms) New Relic.
- Security & Compliance: IAM policy design CloudTrail WAF Secrets Manager vulnerability scanning ().
- Networking: VPC design subnetting VPN routing DNS & TLS management (Cloudflare).
Soft Skills: Proactive problem-solver clear communicator thrives in fast-paced agile teams documentation champion.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- A chance to join a fast-growing well-funded gaming startup with real momentum
- Remote-first working culture with flexibility
Employment Type
Full Time
