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Senior DevOps Engineer

Work model
Remote
Experience
5+ years
Employment
Full Time
Compensation
Not disclosed
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Role description

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Remote work

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Flexible Schedule

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We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team! You will own and evolve Mailtrap's production infrastructure - a multi-region AWS platform powering high-volume email sending and testing. You will keep it reliable, secure, and cost-efficient day to day.

Our engineering team thrives in an agile, continuously improving, and automation-oriented environment. We value ongoing evolution, objective evaluation of our processes, and taking action to make things better.

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What are we looking for?

Must have skills

  • 5+ years DevOps/platform (senior), production ownership
  • Experience in planning and implementing DevOps practices end-to-end
  • Deep AWS (VPC, ECS, IAM, RDS/ElastiCache or equivalents, networking)
  • Terraform at scale (modules, remote state)
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions, including automated deploys to production
  • Containers (Docker); comfortable operating services on ECS or K8s
  • Strong Linux networking (DNS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, VPN)
  • Comfortable owning a multi-quarter infra initiative: TCO, design, vendors, cutover, rollback
  • Fluent English (both spoken and written)

Strongly preferred

  • Replacing managed AWS services with self-hosted (Postgres HA, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, OpenSearch)
  • Email infrastructure (MTA, SMTP, IP reputation, DKIM/SPF/DMARC) - Halon or similar
  • Cloudflare (DNS/WAF/Access)
  • Observability beyond CloudWatch (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki or equivalent)
  • Prior work with multi-region SaaS or EU data residency
  • Cost-driven architecture / FinOps mindset

Would be a plus

  • GCP (BigQuery/certificates)
  • Comfortable reading Ruby or Go (used in our services and tooling)
  • AWS Certificates
  • Comfortable automating operational tasks with shell and/or Python
  • Experience planning or/and executing migration to on-prem, colo, or private cloud (both partial or hybrid), including colo/bare-metal ops: IPAM (NetBox), Ansible, image-based provisioning (Packer or equivalent), HAProxy/Nginx

Responsibilities

  • Operate and evolve AWS multi-account / multi-region infrastructure
  • FinOps
  • Implementing IaaC using Terraform modules
  • Ensure safe infrastructure changes across network, storage, and services, with zero-downtime deployments.
  • ECS services, blue/green deploys, Docker image pipelines
  • Reliability: CloudWatch/PagerDuty/Sentry, capacity, cost tags
  • Security baseline: IAM, secrets (SSM), Cloudflare edge rules
  • Partner with engineers on release automation and production readiness