Senior DevOps Engineer

10 Ten Gaming

Valletta, Malta Island
Contract
Full-time

14 days ago

About Us..We are a cutting-edge startup gaming operator who is passionate about social gaming. Our goal is to provide players with the best gaming experiences possible, whether looking for fun and excitement, or the chance to win big prizes. The organisation is going through one of its most important recruitment drives as it builds a world-class team to accelerate growth.As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will own our cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines end-to-end. Your mission is to keep our AWS-hosted services secure, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient while enabling rapid, reliable software delivery. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, QA, and product teams to embed DevOps best practices throughout the SDLC and foster a culture of continuous improvement.TasksKey ResponsibilitiesAreaWhat You’ll DoCloud Infrastructure (AWS)

Design and operate secure, highly available, and cost-effective environments on AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, Amplify, CloudFront, RDS /Aurora, ElastiCache, VPC).

Automate provisioning with CloudFormation (and Terraform/OpenTofu where applicable).

Implement robust security controls using IAM, CloudTrail, WAF, Secrets Manager, and Wiz. io.

CI/CD & Automation

Build and maintain GitHub Actions pipelines for test, build, scan, deploy, and rollback flows.

Containerize apps with Docker / Docker-Compose; orchestrate via ECS (using ECR).

Embed static analysis and container-security scans (Trivy, Hadolint, Semgrep, Syft/Grype) and publish artifacts to S3.

Application Deployment

Deploy, scale, and monitor Node.js, TypeScript, and Python services across multiple environments.

Manage configuration, secrets, and zero-downtime releases.

Observability & Incident Response

Implement metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic tests with CloudWatch, New Relic, and custom Lambda/EventBridge handlers.

Set up proactive alerting, dashboards, and runbooks to ensure 99.9 %+ uptime.

Data & Backup

Administer PostgreSQL (Aurora) and Redis (ElastiCache); automate snapshots, disaster recovery drills, and performance tuning.

Networking & Edge

Configure VPCs, subnets, security groups, VPN (NordLayer) and Cloudflare DNS/WAF/Workers.

Optimize edge delivery via CloudFront and Amplify.

Collaboration & Governance

Work daily with Jira & Confluence for ticketing and documentation.

Mentor engineers on DevOps practices and champion Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, and security-by-design principles.

RequirementsMinimum Requirements

Experience: 5 + years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles with production AWS workloads.

Core AWS Services: Hands-on with IAM, EC2 (Linux), S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, VPC, RDS / Aurora (PostgreSQL), ElastiCache, CloudFront, Amplify, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SNS.

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Docker-Compose, ECS, ECR.

CI/CD: GitHub Actions expertise (build, test, deploy, notifications).

IaC & Scripting: CloudFormation (author & modify stacks), bash/zsh scripting; working knowledge of TypeScript, Node.js, Python.

Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch (Logs, Metrics, Alarms), New Relic.

Security & Compliance: IAM policy design, CloudTrail, WAF, Secrets Manager, vulnerability scanning (Wiz. io).

Networking: VPC design, subnetting, VPN routing, DNS & TLS management (Cloudflare).

Soft Skills: Proactive problem-solver, clear communicator, thrives in fast-paced agile teams, documentation champion.Benefits

Competitive salary
A chance to join a fast-growing, well-funded gaming startup with real momentum
Remote-first working culture with flexibility

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