# Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

**Company:** [Muck Rack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/muck-rack)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** €95k – €110k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Amazon Eks, Amazon S3, Aws Iam, Amazon Rds, Amazon Vpc, Amazon Route 53, CI/CD, Docker, Containerd, Helm, Argo Cd, Karpenter
**Posted:** 2026-08-27

> Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for building and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure, AWS cloud systems, deployment workflows, and observability for reliable services at scale. Requires 5+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience and strong production Kubernetes expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with DevOps and application engineering teams to design and improve standardized infrastructure, deployment workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build, operate, and improve containerized infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Define Kubernetes best practices and support adoption across engineering teams.
- Manage and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, and storage systems.
- Improve observability, monitoring, and incident readiness across production systems.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation of approximately one week every five weeks.
- Mentor teammates and improve engineering practices and operational maturity.
- Improve developer workflows and reduce deployment and infrastructure friction.
- Contribute to infrastructure documentation and internal enablement.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
- Solid AWS experience, including services such as EKS, S3, IAM, RDS, VPC, and Route 53.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with containerized systems such as Docker and containerd.
- Familiarity with cloud security best practices and shift-left security principles.
- Experience operating and scaling high-traffic systems and large-scale data platforms in production.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and system-design skills.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders in a distributed environment.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
- Familiarity with Helm, Argo CD, and Karpenter.
- Experience improving monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
- Interest in evaluating and adopting technologies that provide clear value.

## Compensation
- Ireland: €95,000–€110,000 annually, depending on experience.
- Bulgaria: €6,000+ gross per month, depending on experience.
- Benefits include remote-work support, home-office and connectivity stipends, coworking membership, health and wellness benefits, paid time off, parental leave, learning and development resources, and equity opportunities.

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