Client Overview:
Our Client is a global leader in corporate brand protection and domain management, serving Fortune 500 and large enterprises with domain registration, online brand monitoring, and anti-counterfeiting services.
Project Description
The Client is consolidating multiple client portals into a single modern platform on AWS. The AWS migration is a core workstream: building out CI/CD and cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform) across multiple environments, and owning scalability and observability as the platform grows. Lead DevOps Engineer will work within the Client's existing DevOps team, partnering closely on architecture and driving the migration forward.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of commercial DevOps / SRE / infrastructure engineering experience, including a technical leadership role on cloud or platform initiatives
- Proven track record building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up, with practical Jenkins expertise
- Deep, hands-on AWS expertise across multiple accounts and environments (compute, networking / VPC, IAM, RDS, deployment, and cost-aware architecture)
- Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise — designing and maintaining reusable, multi-stack Terraform (or equivalent) across dev / staging / production
- Experience deploying, scaling, and operating PHP (Laravel) applications in production
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker plus ECS / EKS / Kubernetes)
- Strong observability skills — metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting (e.g. Prometheus / Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, Datadog)
- Solid scripting / automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
- Working knowledge of MySQL and RabbitMQ in production environments (scaling, monitoring, tuning)
- Experience migrating manual / on-prem deployments to automated cloud-based pipelines
- Sound understanding of system security, secrets management, and networking fundamentals
- Ability to lead and mentor, set standards, and make sound technical decisions in a collaborative, multi-team setting
- Comfortable working embedded within a client's in-house team as part of a close partnership
- Ability to work with significant overlap with US Mountain Time (afternoon collaboration), especially through the initial ramp-up — distributed team across US / UK / Brazil
- Excellent English communication skills
Nice to Have:
- Experience leading an AWS migration or greenfield cloud build-out end to end
- Experience standing up observability / scalability practices on a greenfield or modernizing platform
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor)
- Background in SaaS, multi-tenant platforms, or large-scale B2B portals
- Familiarity with Nuxt.js / Vue.js build and deployment workflows
Responsibilities:
- Lead the AWS migration workstream, driving the transition from manual on-prem deployment toward automated, repeatable cloud delivery
- Build CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for the application largely from the ground up and automate deployment into AWS
- Design and maintain the full AWS infrastructure as code in Terraform — VPCs, subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, RDS, and supporting services — across multiple dev, staging, and production accounts / stacks
- Design and implement scalability for the PHP / Laravel application — autoscaling, load handling, performance under growth
- Build out observability — monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting — to give the team clear visibility into system health
- Partner closely with the Client's in-house DevOps and senior engineering team, joining architecture sessions and helping break down and estimate the work
- Set DevOps standards and best practices; mentor and guide on pipelines, IaC, and operations
- Apply security and operational best practices across pipelines and infrastructure
- Troubleshoot production and infrastructure issues and lead root-cause analysis
- Engage with Client engineering counterparts in US / UK / Brazil on integration points and delivery milestones
- Participate in Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, retros, demos
We offer*:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits
*not applicable for freelancers
Skills Required
- 7+ years commercial DevOps / SRE / infrastructure engineering experience including technical leadership on cloud or platform initiatives
- Proven track record building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up with practical Jenkins expertise
- Deep hands-on AWS expertise across multiple accounts and environments (compute, networking/VPC, IAM, RDS, deployment, cost-aware architecture)
- Infrastructure as Code expertise designing and maintaining reusable, multi-stack Terraform across dev/staging/production
- Experience deploying, scaling, and operating PHP (Laravel) applications in production
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker and ECS / EKS / Kubernetes
- Observability skills: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, Datadog)
- Scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
- Working knowledge of MySQL and RabbitMQ in production (scaling, monitoring, tuning)
- Experience migrating manual/on-prem deployments to automated cloud-based pipelines
- Sound understanding of system security, secrets management, and networking fundamentals
- Ability to lead, mentor, set standards, and make technical decisions in a collaborative multi-team setting
- Ability to work embedded within a client's in-house team and collaborate closely
- Ability to work with significant overlap with US Mountain Time (afternoon collaboration)
- Excellent English communication skills
What We Do
N-iX is a global software solutions and engineering services company that helps world’s leading organizations turn challenges into lasting business value, operational efficiency, and revenue growth using advanced technology. Whether you need to build a custom solution, modernize your digital product or acquire extra tech expertise - we have the experience and capabilities to ensure your success. With over 2,000 professionals in 25 countries across Europe and the Americas, N-iX offers expert solutions in cloud, data analytics, embedded software, IoT, AI, machine learning, and other tech domains. Being in business for over two decades, we have worked with dozens of industry-leading enterprises and Fortune 500 companies creating value across a wide variety of sectors, including finance, manufacturing, supply chain, retail, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Our unique combination of business domain expertise and technical know-how enables us to effectively collaborate with ISVs, tech companies, and enterprises of all sizes. Thanks to the strong tech ecosystem and partnerships with AWS, GCP, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, Snowflake, and others, we bring extra speed, scale and efficiency to more than 160 organizations across the globe. N-iX is recognized by numerous industry awards, such as CRN Solution Provider 500, Global Outsourcing 100 by IAOP, ISG Provider Lens™, Modern Application Development services providers by Forrester, etc
