Senior DevOps Engineer

Industry: banking/FinTech Remote work: 100% Project language: English Business trips: maybe one BT to Sweden per year or two Project length: 12 months contracts + prolongations. Start: ASAP / accordingly to the candidate’s notice (we are ready to wait for the right person) Assignment type: B2B Summary: We are seeking a Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer to design and manage AWS infrastructure, enhancing operational standards and automating processes while ensuring cloud architecture stability and security. Responsibilities: Working within a team of 5 Devops / Infrastructure EngineersOwnership of AWS infrastructure, improve architecture and operational standards, automate manual processes, and help move existing infrastructure toward Infrastructure as Code.Improving stability, security, automation, observability, and cloud architecture across our hybrid infrastructure.The environment contains both modern cloud-native workloads and existing infrastructure that has evolved over time. An important part of the role will therefore be helping us standardize, document and automate existing infrastructure, including bringing manually created resources under Infrastructure as Code management.Going from architecture discussions directly into AWS, Linux, Kubernetes or Terraform and implementing the solution yourself. We are looking for someone who is practical and highly hands-on rather than purely architectural.Challenging existing solutions and proposing better approaches when it comes to cloud architecture, security, reliability, automation and operational efficiency. Must Haves: The ideal candidate has several years of experience operating business-critical AWS environments and can independently take technical ownership of complex infrastructure and DevOps topics.AWS cloud architecture maintenance and improvement (we’re looking for a hands-on engineer, not an Architect)AWS EKS / Kubernetes / Docker / containers managementStrong Linux administration and troubleshootingTerraform / Infrastructure as CodeImporting and migrating manually created AWS resources into Terraform / IaCInfrastructure automation and configuration managementCI/CD pipelines, preferably GitLab and/or Octopus DeployBash and Python scriptingMonitoring and observability using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and ZabbixExperience with other modern monitoring and observability platforms is highly valuedCentralized logging and production troubleshootingAWS networking, VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, and connectivityCloud and infrastructure securityIAM, roles, policies, and least-privilege accessVulnerability management, patching, and security hardeningBackup, disaster recovery, availability, and platform reliabilityIncident handling and root cause analysisCost awareness and optimization of AWS environments Nice to Have: Experience with other monitoring platforms beyond Grafana and PrometheusBackground in incident handling and root cause analysisKnowledge of AWS cost optimization strategies