Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role 

Sportz Interactive is dedicated to leveraging cloud technologies for improved efficiency, scalability, and security. We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to lay the technical foundation for our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. You’ll be the first dedicated DevOps hire in a fast-growing team, with the opportunity to build critical capabilities from scratch — including CI/CD pipelines, observability, IAM, and containerized deployments.

A key mandate for this role is to steer the organization towards a modern container-based architecture, with robust, zero-downtime deployment strategies like canary and blue-green rollouts. You’ll play a hands-on role in designing, implementing, and scaling a secure and highly automated AWS infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Containerization Strategy: Lead the adoption of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes (or ECS/EKS), including image build, storage, and runtime orchestration.
• Progressive Delivery: Implement advanced deployment strategies like canary, blue-green, and feature flags to enable safe, controlled releases.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar to support rapid, reliable deployments.
• AWS Infrastructure: Own and optimize our AWS infrastructure: VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways , Load Balancers (ALB/NLB)  , ECS/EKS/Fargate, EC2, S3, IAM, Route53, CloudWatch
• Observability: Set up and integrate logging, metrics, and tracing to provide full-stack visibility (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.). 
• Security & IAM: Design and enforce IAM policies, secrets management, and access controls across environments
• Infra-as-Code: Define infrastructure using tools like Terraform or Pulumi to ensure consistency and repeatability.
• Culture Building: Mentor engineers on DevOps practices, automate manual processes, and help foster a culture of operational excellence. 

Background and Experience

• 8+ years of DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in AWS, especially with core services like VPCs, ALB/NLB, IAM, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, Route53, etc.
• Solid hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or Fargate).
• Deep understanding of modern deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, rolling updates).
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred). 
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Clear track record of building DevOps capabilities in early-stage or fast-scaling teams. 

Good to Have

• Experience with service mesh (e.g., Istio or AWS App Mesh) for traffic shaping in canary deployments.
• Familiarity with policy-as-code (e.g., OPA, AWS SCPs).
• Exposure to cost-optimization strategies on AWS.
• Prior experience with compliance-ready environments (SOC2, ISO27001).