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Overview: In this Senior DevOps Engineer role, you will own and scale the platform infrastructure for a well-funded startup building a high-traffic real-time consumer platform. You’ll collaborate with backend, security, and product teams to shape how software is built, deployed, and operated. You will solve complex infrastructure challenges, improve developer experience, and ensure reliability at scale. This hands-on position offers impact across cloud, Kubernetes, and CI/CD while supporting rapid growth and operational excellence.
Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes environments Improve deployment processes, release workflows, and developer tooling to enable faster and safer delivery Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters, including networking, scaling, workload management, and platform reliability Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities to improve system reliability and incident response Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues and resolve performance bottlenecks Automate operational processes and reduce manual overhead across the platform Improve CI/CD pipelines and build systems to support efficient software delivery Support security initiatives across infrastructure, access controls, secrets management, and deployment practices Monitor infrastructure performance, reliability, and cloud spend to identify opportunities for optimisation Contribute to technical discussions and architectural decisions across the platform Participate in incident response and support operational readiness across production systems
Key requirements: 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar infrastructure-focused role Strong experience working within AWS environments Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production at scale Experience building and managing infrastructure using Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools Strong understanding of Linux, networking, containers, DNS, load balancing, and security best practices Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation Familiarity with observability practices across metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, and alerting Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers Experience operating production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance Ability to work closely with software engineers and balance speed, reliability, and maintainability collaboration with cross-functional teams problem-solving mindset communication AWS Kubernetes Terraform

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