Senior DevOps Engineer — Global Infra & Automation

Remote Freelance; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote Freelance is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and build scalable infrastructure for a fast-growing SaaS business expanding internationally.

This hands-on role also requires strategic thinking and the ability to influence technical direction, with an early project modernising the infrastructure. You will evaluate current systems, implement IaC, containerization, and observability, collaborating with product teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• Senior DevOps with hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Ability to influence technical direction and strategy.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure modernization projects.
• Review upgrade roadmaps and challenge assumptions.
• Improve scalability, reliability and automation.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

AWS

Kubernetes

Linux

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Job description

Remote Freelance is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and build scalable infrastructure for a fast-growing SaaS business expanding internationally.

This hands-on role also requires strategic thinking and the ability to influence technical direction, with an early project modernising the infrastructure. You will evaluate current systems, implement IaC, containerization, and observability, collaborating with product teams across time zones.