Senior DevOps Engineer
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. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, QA, and product teams to embed DevOps best practices throughout the SDLC and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Area
What You’ll 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 Wiz.io.
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 Node.js, 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.
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, Node.js, Python.
- Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch (Logs, Metrics, Alarms), New Relic.
- Security & Compliance: IAM policy design, CloudTrail, WAF, Secrets Manager, vulnerability scanning (Wiz.io).
- 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.
Preferred / “Nice-to-Have” Qualifications:
- IaC Expansion: Terraform or OpenTofu experience maintaining existing plans.
- Edge Computing: Building Cloudflare Workers to serve secure, low-latency content.
- Advanced Security Posture: Wiz.io dashboards & integrations.
- Database Mastery: Query tuning, role-based access management, automated failover for Aurora/PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional.
What You’ll Get:
- Competitive salary
- A chance to join a fast-growing, well-funded gaming startup with real momentum
- Remote-first working culture with flexibility
