Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization in their search for a Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) based in Croatia. Our client operates a mission-critical cloud platform serving customers globally, and they need an infrastructure expert who can design for scale, build for reliability, and champion security-first practices.

This is a fully remote role where you'll own critical AWS infrastructure, lead observability initiatives, and drive operational excellence across the platform. If you thrive in complex cloud environments and want your work to have tangible impact, we'd like to introduce you.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust, scalable AWS infrastructure supporting platform growth and system migrations
• Own reliability, performance, and security of production environments with a focus on high uptime and rapid incident resolution
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Chef
• Monitor system health using enterprise observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog), defining metrics and response playbooks
• Lead security-first practices across the infrastructure estate, addressing vulnerabilities and driving SOC 2 compliance
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate operational requirements into the development lifecycle
• Champion AI adoption within DevOps and SRE workflows, evaluating tooling that increases velocity
• Respond to on-call incidents, troubleshoot complex issues, and lead root cause analyses with durable fixes

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Hands-on AWS experience across IAM, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail
• Experience with multi-account AWS management and SSO
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with configuration management tools like Chef or Ansible
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory, and Jenkins
• Familiarity with GitOps methodologies
• Container and orchestration experience with Docker, ECS, or EKS
• Working knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog monitoring platforms
• Proven troubleshooting skills and track record leading root cause analyses
• Proficiency reading Java, Ruby, Bash/Zsh, HCL, Python, and JavaScript
• Experience with SOC 2 compliance and security-first infrastructure practices
• Comfort with weekly on-call rotation

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience migrating workloads from on-premises or colocation environments to AWS
• Familiarity with Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, and.NET environments
• Experience administering and synchronizing MongoDB replica sets
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, Layer 7 load balancing, or Terragrunt
• Background in hospitality technology or SaaS platforms
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

How We Work With You

As a specialized recruiting firm, Get A Job.ai partners with leading technology organizations to connect them with exceptional talent. When you apply through our platform, here's what happens:

• You submit your application directly on getajob.ai
• Our talent team conducts an initial screening to understand your background and goals
• We present qualified candidates to our client for consideration
• Throughout the process, we advocate for you and provide guidance

Important: Please do not attempt to contact the client directly. All communication should flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure a smooth, professional process for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our talent team.

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We celebrate diversity and are committed to presenting qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.