DevOps Engineer

Join Lepaya! At Lepaya, we believe that people are every organisation's greatest asset. Our mission is to help professionals develop the skills they need to thrive, and technology enables us to deliver that learning experience to thousands of learners around the world. As a DevOps Engineer, you'll work closely with Yusuf, our Senior DevOps and help build and maintain the cloud platform that makes this possible. You'll ensure our products are secure, reliable, and scalable, while giving our Tech and Product teams the tools they need to deliver new features quickly and confidently. You'll join a collaborative team where DevOps is all about enabling others. Working closely with Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and Product teams, you'll improve the infrastructure, automation, and developer experience that sit behind our learning platform. Building and improving our AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code. Enhancing our CI/CD platform with reusable GitHub Actions workflows, and self-hosted runners making deployments faster and more reliable. Improving monitoring and observability using Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry. Developing in-house infrastructure modules that enable engineering teams to launch new services with ease. Supporting our growing AI and data capabilities by expanding our cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP. Strengthening platform security through automation, identity management, and vulnerability scanning. Finding opportunities to automate repetitive processes and continuously improve the developer experience. This role offers plenty of ownership while giving you the opportunity to learn, grow, and help shape the platform that powers Lepaya's mission to transform workplace learning. ***Important information: We are not open to relocation. This role is based on a 28h employment contract*** What you’ll bring Minimum, 3 years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering role. Hands-on experience working with AWS. Experience using Terraform Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools. Experience working with Docker and cloud native services such as ECS, Lambda, or Kubernetes. A good understanding of cloud networking, security, and infrastructure best practices. Scripting skills in Bash or Python. Experience with TypeScript is a plus. A proactive mindset and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with software engineers across different teams. Nice to have Exposure to GCP alongside AWS. Experience supporting a data platform (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow/MWAA). FinOps experience: cost allocation, budgets. Experience with compliance automation or security tooling Your first-year achievements Contributed to improving and scaling our AWS infrastructure using Terraform. Helped optimize our CI/CD platform, enabling engineering teams to deploy with greater speed and confidence. Built or improved shared infrastructure modules that simplify how new services are deployed. Enhanced monitoring and alerting, giving teams better visibility into the health of our platform. Automated manual operational tasks, improving efficiency across our engineering teams. Worked closely with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver infrastructure that supports new products and features. Contributed to strengthening our security and cloud governance through automation and best practices. Establish yourself as a trusted partner for engineers, helping create a platform that is reliable, scalable, and easy to use. Our tech stack Cloud: AWS (primary, multi-account Organizations), GCP IaC: Terraform (tflint, terraform-docs, pre-commit), Packer Compute: ECS on Fargate, Lambda, ECR CI/CD: GitHub Actions with centralized reusable workflows, GitHub OIDC, self-hosted runners on AWS, Dependabot Observability: Grafana Cloud, Loki, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Sentry, Slack alerting Data & storage: Aurora/RDS PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, Airflow (MWAA) Networking & edge: CloudFront, ALB, Route53, WAFv2, VPC, nginx, OpenVPN/SSM Session Manager Security: IAM Identity Center, GuardDuty, KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Trivy/Grype/Snyk, SonarQube Application stack: Node.js/TypeScript (NestJS, Fastify), Python (FastAPI), React, Vue, Flutter, Salesforce Why you’ll love this journey at Lepaya A challenging role in a vibrant international scale-up Our work-to-live scheme, which prioritizes health and wellbeing Unlimited holidays and Lepaya Fridays, every other Friday, a day for yourself Flexible hours and a hybrid working arrangement, we expect you to work from our office at least 3 days a week. Tuesday and Thursday are anchor days Work from anywhere for 8 weeks/year Access to Empowr, our well-being partner Lots of opportunities to learn and grow, including internal career development: Access to our Lepaya Academy to help you upskill An internal hiring program to help you advance Our mission At Lepaya, we empower professionals to thrive in their careers and lead happier lives, helping businesses reach new heights. Every member of our team plays a part in transforming how organizations grow and develop their talent. Through our Portal, Academies, and App, we deliver blended training programs for every career stage, enabling learners to learn, practice, and apply new skills that truly make an impact. Trusted by companies like KPMG, ING, Just Eat Takeaway, Bynder, Dell, Kraft Heinz, and BCG, we’ve upskilled over 26,000 learners in 2024 across 120 countries. Backed by $80M in funding, we’re on a mission to become the world’s leading upskilling platform — and we’d love you to be part of it. What does it mean to be a Lepayaan? We succeed together. We act and come up with solutions. We build for growth. We exceed expectations. We create meaningful impact. For a glimpse into our culture, explore our careers page. How we live DE&I At Lepaya, our diverse team embraces professionals of all backgrounds. We prioritize an inclusive environment where every member is valued and empowered. Your unique perspective is celebrated, ensuring you feel supported and encouraged to be yourself at work. What’s next? Ensuring a smooth candidate journey is our top priority. Here's a sneak peek into our standard hiring process: 1. An intro video call with Tracy, from TA, 2. An hour chat with Yusuf, the team member 3. A business case / technical interview with Yusuf and Rovana, the hiring manager, and finally, an offer! We're all about getting to know you better, so we'll invite you to our office for a face-to-face stage, where you can meet potential future colleagues and experience our awesome office vibes firsthand! Eager to jump on board? Get in touch! What we’re looking for Why you’ll love this journey at Lepaya Our mission How we live DE&I Our Way of Working What happens next