DevOps Specialist

Senior DevOps Engineer About the Role We are looking for a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong technical background and a proven track record of designing, implementing, and operating complex, scalable technology environments. The ideal candidate will be a key technical reference within the engineering organisation, contributing to architecture decisions, establishing technical standards, driving automation, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of our platforms. Mandatory Requirements 10+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a closely related field.Proven experience working with complex, distributed, and highly scalable environments.Strong experience designing and implementing cloud architectures, preferably AWS, Azure, or GCP.Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and containerised environments.Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform.Strong expertise in CI/CD, including the design and optimisation of deployment pipelines.Advanced Linux and systems administration knowledge.Strong understanding of networking, security, IAM, authentication, and access management.Hands-on experience with observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and incident management.Strong experience with Git and modern software development workflows.Solid scripting/programming skills in languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar.Experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and the integration of security into the development and deployment lifecycle.Experience implementing and maintaining production-grade platforms and environments. Key Responsibilities Define and evolve the technical direction of the DevOps and platform environment.Design scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient infrastructure architectures.Establish and maintain engineering standards, best practices, and technical guidelines.Drive the adoption of automation across infrastructure, deployments, testing, and operational processes.Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines.Own and improve the organization's cloud and infrastructure strategy.Lead technical initiatives involving Kubernetes, cloud platforms, IaC, observability, security, and automation.Identify technical risks and proactively implement solutions to improve system reliability and performance.Drive improvements in system availability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.Participate in architectural decisions and technical evaluations of new technologies.Collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Product teams.Act as a technical point of reference for complex DevOps and infrastructure challenges.Mentor and support other engineers, promoting knowledge sharing and strong engineering practices.Participate in incident analysis, root-cause investigations, and the implementation of long-term corrective actions. Technical Expertise The successful candidate is expected to have strong expertise across several of the following areas: Cloud & Infrastructure AWS, Azure, or GCPVPC/VNet, networking, load balancing, DNS, IAMHigh availability and disaster recoveryCloud security and cost optimizationContainers & Orchestration KubernetesDockerHelmContainer security and orchestrationInfrastructure as Code & Automation TerraformAnsible or similar configuration management toolsInfrastructure automation and provisioningGitOps practicesCI/CD Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similarAutomated build, test, deployment, and release processesDeployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling deploymentsObservability & Reliability Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, New Relic, or similarMetrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboardsSLI/SLO conceptsIncident response and root-cause analysisSecurity IAM and secrets managementNetwork securityVulnerability managementSecure CI/CD pipelinesDevSecOps practicesDevelopment & Automation Strong Bash and/or PythonWorking knowledge of Go or another programming language is a plusGit and Git-based development workflows Leadership & Collaboration Ability to provide technical direction and influence engineering decisions.Comfortable owning complex initiatives from definition through implementation.Ability to establish technical standards and drive their adoption across teams.Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.Strong mentoring and knowledge-sharing capabilities.Comfortable challenging existing approaches and proposing pragmatic improvements.Ability to balance technical excellence, business priorities, scalability, and delivery timelines. Nice to Have Experience in SRE or Platform Engineering environments.Experience operating large-scale production platforms.Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.Experience with service mesh technologies.Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging systems.Experience with database infrastructure and performance optimization.Relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications.Experience working in international, distributed engineering teams.