Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP & AWS)

The Role We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our current infrastructure team of 4 engineers. You'll take ownership of how we build, deploy, and operate our cloud platform. We’re actively investing in modernization: migrating to a fully cloud-native architecture, improving compliance posture, and moving toward platform self-service for our development teams. Our client, Miaplaza, is a US-based company with team members across multiple countries and cultures. We value transparent communication and expect everyone to collaborate respectfully and effectively across differences. We have legacy systems (self-hosted, on-prem, limited scalability etc.) but we are transitioning to modern architectures, hosted services and cloud-native. The split between legacy and new work varies by period, but you should be comfortable working across both, bringing modern practices to new systems while pragmatically maintaining and migrating older ones. A core goal of the modernization effort is to consolidate and shrink the stack: replacing legacy tooling with modern equivalents, adopting managed services where they make sense, and reducing the operational surface the team has to maintain. Every migration decision is measured against whether it lowers the daily burden on the team. What You'll Work On: Cloud Infrastructure & IaC Design, build, and maintain infrastructure on GCP (primary) and AWS (supplementary) using Terraform Drive the ongoing cloud migration - moving on-premise workloads to GKE with a container-centric approach, and evaluating managed/SaaS alternatives where they make sense over self-hosted CI/CD & GitOps Maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and operate GitOps workflows - FluxCD for infrastructure delivery, ArgoCD for application deployments Work within a bi-weekly release cadence with a published schedule. Our CI pipeline is an evolving process: continuously improving validation, security scanning, and automation Observability & Reliability Operate and improve our observability stack; build alerting, dashboards, and runbooks Participate in blameless postmortems - we focus on learning, not fingerpointing Contribute to disaster recovery planning and backup validation Security & Compliance Maintain and evolve security controls, scanning tooling, and compliance posture Platform Engineering Move toward developer self-service and contribute to our reusable Terraform module library Help build out staging and development environments from the existing production blueprint Contribute to cost optimization - being mindful of spending across GKE, storage, and self-hosted tooling Databases & Data Stores Operate PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ Networking Work with service mesh, load balancing, CDN/WAF, VPC architecture, and DNS management Requirments: 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering Solid Terraform experience - you've written modules, managed state, and dealt with real-world drift and refactoring Production experience with Kubernetes (GKE preferred, EKS/AKS experience transfers well) Senior-level GCP knowledge - IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL, Secret Manager. This is our primary cloud, and you have deep expertise here. Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operations (GitLab CI preferred) and GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD) Bash for automation and scripting Understanding of networking and Linux administration Familiarity with observability concepts - metrics, logs, traces, and how they fit together Proficiency in English (written and spoken) - English is our working language across all teams and time zones Comfortable working in a globally distributed, multicultural team Nice to Have: AWS experience - we use AWS for select services; cross-cloud experience helps Experience operating self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry) Istio / service mesh experience Database operations experience (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) Python experience Identity and access management - SAML/SSO, OpenID, OAuth with enterprise identity providers Security scanning and compliance tooling KEDA or event-driven autoscaling Experience migrating legacy infrastructure to cloud-native platforms Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling Experience supporting .NET/C# application deployments Exposure to message brokers (RabbitMQ) Experience working in EdTech or mission-driven organizations We offer*: Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible A competitive salary and good compensation package Personalized career growth Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more) Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing Education reimbursement Memorable anniversary presents Corporate events and team buildings Other location-specific benefits *not applicable for freelancers