Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer owning reliability, observability, and infrastructure security for HeyMilo's AI-powered interview platform, which processes thousands of interviews daily. Day-to-day spans AWS and DigitalOcean infrastructure, Kubernetes/Docker deployments via Terraform and GitHub Actions, and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United Arab Emirates
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Deep experience with AWS, Containerization, and DigitalOcean
- Observability-driven mindset — nothing happens in production without being tracked
- Takes 100% SLA uptime seriously and proactively prevents failures
- Locks down access, secrets, and API keys for secure deployments
- Strong CS fundamentals and systems engineering principles
- Cloud expertise: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, EKS, SQS), DigitalOcean
- Infrastructure expertise: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- Observability expertise: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, OpenSearch, Betterstack
- Security expertise: secrets management, access control, compliance
- Database expertise: Redis, ClickHouse, MongoDB
- CI/CD expertise: GitHub Actions, Terraform pipelines
Full description
HeyMilo is redefining the recruiting industry with AI-powered hiring solutions. Our platform operates at massive scale, processing thousands of AI-driven interviews daily, and we must strive to maintain a 100% SLA for our customers.
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own platform reliability, observability, and infrastructure security. This role is mission-critical — you’ll ensure that our systems stay up, run fast, and remain secure.
Who You Are
- Cloud & DevOps Expert – You have deep experience with AWS, Containerization, and DigitalOcean.
- Observability-Driven – You believe that nothing should happen in production without being tracked.
- Reliability-Focused – You take 100% SLA uptime seriously and proactively prevent failures.
- Security-Conscious – You lock down access, secrets, and API keys to ensure secure deployments.
- CS Fundamentals – You have strong systems engineering principles to optimize infrastructure performance.
What You’ll Do
- Monitor and maintain AWS and DigitalOcean infrastructure to ensure 100% uptime.
- Build observability systems to track every aspect of platform health (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Automate deployments using ECR, EKS, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions).
- Secure access tokens, API keys, and environment variables while managing secrets.
- Optimize serverless functions (Lambdas) and database performance.
- Proactively detect and mitigate system failures before they impact customers.
- Ensure S3 storage, Redis, and ClickHouse databases operate at peak efficiency.
- Overlook the infrastructure for long term success. Consistently ask yourself - “Can we scale to handle 1 million interviews TODAY?”
Technical Expertise:
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, EKS, SQS), DigitalOcean
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, Opensearch, Betterstack
- Security: Secrets management, access control, compliance
- Databases: Redis, ClickHouse, MongoDB,
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Terraform pipelines