Staff DevOps Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will join a growing platform team where you can go beyond execution and take true technical ownership of the platform, driving architecture decisions, mentoring peers, and leading critical projects as the company transitions from on-premises infrastructure to AWS. You will act as a senior technical voice within the team, working closely with the Engineering Manager and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the future of the platform infrastructure.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering
• Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Senior+ level, owning projects end-to-end with minimal oversight
• Experience working in a hybrid on-prem / cloud environment, ideally during cloud migration
• Passionate about technology and always learning
• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset
• Strong communication skills, able to engage stakeholders, document decisions, and collaborate across distributed teams
• Familiarity with Proxmox or similar open-source hypervisors
• Experience with security tooling beyond SSL/TLS (e.g., WAF, IDS/IPS)
• Experience in a fast-moving SaaS or product-led engineering organization
• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows

Responsibilities

• Act as a staff-level technical lead, own epics, drive architecture decisions, and set the technical direction for platform initiatives
• Lead the migration from on-premises infrastructure to AWS, ensuring continuity and resilience throughout the transition
• Champion best practices in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and platform reliability
• Serve as a go-to expert and escalation point for complex technical challenges within the team
• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure across both cloud (AWS) and on-prem environments
• Manage and optimize the on-premises virtualization platform (Proxmox/Ceph) while progressively shifting workloads to AWS
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (AWS) and Ansible (on-prem)
• Manage networking components including firewalls, switches, and related security configurations
• Ensure platform security through TLS certificate management, Vault, and close collaboration with the Security team
• Participate in on-call rotations covering the full platform stack from infrastructure to CI/CD layers
• Respond to and resolve production incidents in a timely manner and contribute to post-mortems and continuous improvement
• Support and improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across the platform

Benefits

• Access to mental health platform nilo including 1on1 sessions
• Access to Udemy training platform with unlimited content and certification
• Support on equipment for remote work
• Flexible working hours
• Regular onsite gatherings, internal initiatives and summer parties
• Paid special leave days
• Workcation possibilities