Senior DevOps Engineer

About Jamworks

Jamworks is an AI-powered educational platform enabling students to record lectures, generate enhanced notes, summaries, flashcards, and access a personalized AI tutor  - all synced across devices and supportive of over 26 languages. Widely adopted across global institutions, it’s praised as a life-changing tool for inclusive learning.

About the Role

Take ownership of the entire DevOps function: leading a distributed team, implementing complex architectural transformations, and remaining fully hands-on in critical delivery tasks. This role balances strategic leadership with operational accountability, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability across all platforms.

 

Core Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate, and grow the DevOps team while setting technical direction.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and cloud-native architectures
• Oversee and be accountable for uptime, monitoring, observability, and disaster recovery
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to align DevOps strategy with business objectives
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory frameworks ( SOC2)
• Drive automation, cost optimization, and operational excellence across environments
• Stay hands-on with key initiatives: complex migrations, performance tuning, scaling systems
• Responsibility for the further development and operation of the AWS cloud architectures for the areas of data warehouse and data science
• Set up and maintenance of CI/CI (GitlabCI) for service development
• Hosting, connection, and maintenance of AWS/Azure environments and other third-party services
• Infrastructure tasks to provide and operate internal services (Terraform)
• Analysis of the existing setup and proactive development of security, scaling, and automation concepts. Provision of an easily maintainable infrastructure for dev, staging, and production described as code — infrastructure as a code approach (IaC)
• Driving the company-wide cloud strategy using AWS technologies
• Identification of weaknesses in access rights, managed domains, DNS > SSL
• Supporting the further development and optimization of continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitOps approach (ArgoCD)
• Monitoring, reporting, failover, and recovery, as well as accompanying documentation and implementation of regular and proactive audits
  
  Required Technical Skills
• Cloud Platforms: Deep expertise in AWS (preferred), Azure, IBM Cloud experience will be a significant plus
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Helm
• CI/CD: GitLab CI, ArgoCD
• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (production-grade), Docker
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
• Networking & Performance: Load balancing, CDN, API gateways, DNS, VPCs, edge computing.
• High Availability & DR: Multi-region architectures, backup/recovery strategies.
• Successfully completed studies in the field of computer science or a comparable field of study and practical experience as a DevOps
• Excellent knowledge of AWS, basic skills in Azure and Linux-based environments
• Relevant experience in the use of virtualization, containerization, monitoring, continuous deployment, and integration
• Knowledge of a language for automation (e.g. bash, python)
• Distributed systems and high availability are more than just buzzwords for you
• Confident team player, organizational talent, and strong communication skills
• Independent, goal-oriented, and structured way of working