Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP/AWS/Azure) | Powering End-to-End Digital Platforms at the Intersection of Technology and Scale | Remote

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Contractual Hiring 5+ years
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Role Overview

The Senior DevOps role sits within a high-performing engineering environment focused on building scalable, high-performance web and mobile applications used by global clients. The work balances modern cloud-native technologies with real-world production demands, reliability, and performance at scale.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, the role operates as a hands-on individual contributor, owning infrastructure, automation, and delivery pipelines end to end. Close collaboration with engineering, product, and operations teams is expected to strengthen system reliability, improve deployment workflows, and elevate the overall development lifecycle.


What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure to support scalable applications

  • Set up and evolve development tools, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks

  • Identify stakeholder needs and translate them into robust technical solutions

  • Automate development, release, and deployment processes to improve efficiency

  • Ensure infrastructure and systems remain secure against cybersecurity threats

  • Monitor systems throughout the lifecycle and continuously improve reliability and performance

  • Establish new processes and improve existing ones to reduce inefficiencies

  • Mentor and guide engineers within the DevOps function


What You’ll Need

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps engineering

  • Proven experience operating as an individual contributor on complex infrastructure initiatives

  • Ability to define and implement best practices, guidelines, and SOPs across DevOps workflows

  • Strong experience with Linux-based systems

  • Solid programming knowledge in Ruby, Perl, Java, and/or Python

  • Experience managing databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL

  • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills

  • Clear understanding of DevOps and Agile principles

  • Experience deploying monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Nagios, Datadog, or similar

  • Hands-on expertise with containerization and orchestration tools including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent

  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms, with deep exposure to AWS and GCP

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar

  • Ability to automate build, test, and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, or similar

  • Comfort working in fast-paced environments while managing multiple initiatives

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, VPC, RDS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, WAF, Load Balancers, CloudWatch, EKS, API Gateway, Cognito, SES, SNS, AMI, and IAM

  • Experience integrating and supporting backend services with Content Management Systems (CMS)

  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes


Nice to Have

  • Exposure to Umbraco CMS and Windows Server/IIS

  • Experience with CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar tools

  • Hands-on work with microservices architectures and related deployment challenges

  • Experience operating in hybrid or multi-cloud environments

  • Experience automating serverless architectures such as AWS Lambda

  • Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, vulnerability scanning, and secrets management tools like HashiCorp Vault

  • Experience supporting cloud migration initiatives


Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

  • 5+ years of DevOps experience delivering scalable, reliable infrastructure

  • Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Kubernetes Administrator are a plus

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