Senior DevOps Engineer - KICK

easygo; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Private health insurance (employee & 1

Paternity leave 15 days

Office amenities

Job summary

easygo is seeking an experienced Infrastructure/DevOps professional to build and operate a cloud platform for a high-traffic live-streaming service. You will work hands-on across infrastructure, shared services, delivery tooling, and reliability, enabling safe deployment and operation at scale.

The role requires deep experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Terraform, and observability tools, plus strong networking and security know-how.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or scalable systems.
• Experience with AWS EKS and services (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, IAM).
• Familiar with Golang and Node.js/TypeScript; strong networking basics.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems; security awareness.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; collaborative across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate shared platform services, including Kubernetes-based real-time messaging.
• Provision cloud environments and reusable deployment patterns with AWS, Terraform, and GitOps tools.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release controls, monitoring, logging, and incident response.
• Resolve performance, reliability, and scalability bottlenecks in distributed systems.
• Prepare for traffic spikes with load testing, capacity planning, autoscaling checks, and readiness reviews.
• Lead platform work across time zones and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

Terraform

GitOps

Go

Node.js/TypeScript

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Terraform tooling

Datadog

Cloudflare

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate the cloud platform that supports a large live-streaming service and other products. You’ll work hands-on across infrastructure, shared services, delivery tooling, and reliability, helping engineering teams deploy and run systems safely at high traffic volumes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate shared platform services, including Kubernetes-based real-time messaging infrastructure.
• Provision cloud environments and reusable deployment patterns with AWS, Terraform, and GitOps tools.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release controls, monitoring, logging, and incident response practices.
• Find and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability bottlenecks in distributed systems.
• Prepare for major traffic events through load testing, capacity planning, autoscaling checks, and readiness reviews.
• Lead platform work across a distributed team and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Requirements

• At least six years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering focused on scalable systems.
• Experience with AWS EKS and services such as EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and IAM; Terraform; and observability tools such as Datadog or Cloudflare.
• Familiarity with Golang and Node.js/TypeScript, plus strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, and VPCs.
• Experience with microservices and large-scale distributed systems, and a working understanding of security practices.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership, and written and verbal communication skills for collaboration across time zones.
• A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-connection-volume or real-time messaging services, and preparing high-traffic systems for live events.
• Familiarity with ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and internal developer platforms or self-service tooling.

Benefits and work setup

The role is based in Belgrade in an office-first team, with the option to work from home up to two days per week.

• annual performance-linked bonus
• private health insurance for the employee and dependants
• 15 working days of paid paternity leave
• office amenities

Collaboration with an international team and occasional travel may be part of the work.