Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

Contractor · Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, delivery pipeline, and AWS infrastructure behind a real-money skill gaming platform. Your first priority will be completing the move from manual Jenkins deployments to automated releases on GitHub Actions and Terraform-managed ECS. This is a hands-on senior role on a small team with real ownership.

Responsibilities

Own the GitHub Actions and Terraform ECS deployment pipeline, including approvals, migration gates, and rollback.Make zero-downtime database migrations the default for a PostgreSQL-backed Django system that handles payments.
Manage the Terraform estate and a multi-account AWS Organization, bringing all resources under code.
Rebuild alerting around SLOs, own observability tooling, and lead incident response and postmortems.
Own secrets, certificates, patching, and security reviews required by gaming and payments partners.
Optimize AWS spend and report on it monthly.
Extend existing AI agents to automate operational toil, and document runbooks for the team.

Tech Stack

AWS (ECS, RDS, Redshift, GameLift)
Terraform / Terraform Cloud
GitHub Actions / Jenkins
Docker
Python / Django
PostgreSQL
Grafana, Sentry, PagerDuty

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or SRE roles, running production workloads on AWS and owning the Terraform behind them.
Proven experience automating a manual release process.
Background in systems where downtime has financial or regulatory impact (payments, fintech, gaming, or similar).
Enough Python and Django knowledge to understand how migrations and workers affect deployments.
Practical experience defining SLOs, reducing alert noise, and building useful dashboards.
Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
Active use of AI tools in coding and operations.

Nice to Have

Advanced GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, OIDC to AWS).
Blue/green or canary deployments.
Jenkins to GitHub Actions migration experience.
Unity or mobile game build pipelines.
Regulated real-money products (KYC, geolocation).
FinOps experience with measurable cost reductions.

Why join us?

Competitive compensation paid in USD.
100% Remote.
Paid Time Off: 12 PTO days per year.
Local Holidays: All official holidays in your country.
Birthday Off.
Career Growth opportunities.
Recognition Program.
Paid approved leaves.

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