As Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps Lead), you’ll take full ownership of Kadanza’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer delivery pipeline.
You’ll stabilize and modernize our platform operations, build an internal developer platform, and help us deliver features faster, safer, and more reliably.
You’ll work closely with our backend, frontend, and product teams, supported by an existing DevOps external consultant during the handover period.
Responsibilities:
Infrastructure & Automation:
- Own AWS environments (EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM, ACM, Route53).
- Refactor and modularize Terraform setup (baseline, platform, tenant layers).
- Standardize and automate environment provisioning (dev, staging, prod).
- Build automation for tenant deployment and scaling.
CI/CD & Delivery:
- Build and maintain robust pipelines (CircleCI / GitHub Actions).
- Migration from CircleCI to Argo CD or similar
- Improve deployment speed, reliability, and rollback safety.
- Introduce GitOps or environment-as-code workflows.
Observability & Reliability:
- Own Datadog monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Define SLIs/SLOs for core services.
- Implement auto-scaling, health checks, and cost monitoring.
Collaboration & Culture:
- Work side-by-side with developers to make infrastructure self-service.
- Document standards and best practices.
- Mentor others on DevOps fundamentals.
Experience: 5–10 years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
Must-have skills:
- AWS (EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM, ACM).
- Terraform (modular IaC, workspaces, multi-environment setups).
- Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.
- CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Networking and security (Traefik, Nginx ingress, SSL/TLS).
- Scripting (Bash, Python, or Go).
- Git discipline and strong documentation habits.
- Good English communication skills.
Nice to have:
- SaaS or multi-tenant platform experience.
- Familiarity with PHP/Symfony and React.
- Knowledge of FusionAuth or SAML/OIDC authentication.
- Understanding of SRE principles (SLI/SLO, incident management).
Success in 90 Days:
- CI/CD pipelines are reliable, automated, and version-controlled.
- Terraform is clean, modular, and reproducible.
- Staging and production are consistent and monitored via Datadog.
- AWS environment ownership fully transitioned from external consultant.
- Developers deploy confidently and independently.
