Dev Ops Engineer
ClickOut Media is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join its infrastructure team and help operate, maintain, and evolve the infrastructure behind its core affiliate tracking platform. The infrastructure is primarily hosted on AWS, so strong hands-on AWS experience is essential for this role.
The successful candidate will work across cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, infrastructure as code, configuration management, containerised workloads, CI/CD pipelines, databases, monitoring, and production operations. This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who is comfortable taking ownership of production infrastructure, troubleshooting complex issues, and improving the reliability and automation of environments.
- Design, deploy, maintain and troubleshoot production infrastructure primarily hosted on AWS.
- Manage AWS environments and services including: AWS Organizations, EC2, Application Load Balancers (ALB), Lambdas, S3, RDS / Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache / Redis, SQS and SNS, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, and AWS WAF.
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, with an emphasis on repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure.
- Maintain and improve server and application configuration using Ansible.
- Operate containerised applications using Docker and Docker Compose.
- Build, maintain and improve Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and operational workflows.
- Monitor infrastructure and applications using Grafana, Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch.
- Manage and troubleshoot database infrastructure including MySQL / Aurora, DynamoDB and ClickHouse.
- Operate and troubleshoot Redis-based workloads using AWS ElastiCache.
- Investigate production incidents, identify root causes and implement permanent fixes.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, security and performance.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual infrastructure management.
- Review infrastructure changes and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
- Maintain appropriate backup, recovery, monitoring and alerting processes.
- Work closely with developers and other technical teams to support application deployments and production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments. (required)
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills. (required)
- Good understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM and infrastructure architecture. (required)
- Production experience with several of the AWS services used in our stack, particularly EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, CloudWatch and AWS Organizations. (required)
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices. (required)
- Experience with Ansible or comparable configuration-management tooling. (required)
- Good working knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose. (required)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using Jenkins. (required)
- Experience operating and troubleshooting MySQL in production. (required)
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch. (required)
- Good understanding of networking concepts including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, firewalls, routing and TLS. (required)
- Ability to diagnose complex infrastructure and application issues across multiple layers of a production environment. (required)
- Comfortable working with Git and infrastructure-as-code development workflows. (required)
- Candidates must be based in time zones spanning from the Americas through Southeast Asia to help maintain continuous 24/7 operational coverage. (required)
- Experience with AWS Lambda and serverless architectures. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with DynamoDB. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with ClickHouse. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with Redis / AWS ElastiCache. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with SQS and SNS. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with AWS WAF. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with AWS Backup and disaster-recovery strategies. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with AWS multi-account environments and AWS Organizations. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with infrastructure security and hardening. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with high-availability and scalable production architectures. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with performance troubleshooting and capacity planning. (nice-to-have)
- Experience with scripting and automation using Bash, Python or similar languages. (nice-to-have)
- A brilliant opportunity to grow your career & work with a fun, fast-paced & growing company, prepared to let you shine.
- An entrepreneurial environment where you learn more every day (we more than welcome and support people with their own projects).
- Build an organization that continues to diversify its portfolio.
- Personal responsibility with a ton of autonomy.
- 33 free paid days.
- Market-leading remuneration and bonuses available.
- An international team with over 35 nationalities.
- Fully Remote working.
ClickOut Media is a remote-first, multichannel marketing company that delivers SEO and content services for clients around the world. It specialises in highly competitive search verticals, including iGaming and crypto, operating across major languages and platforms. The company builds and grows content-driven websites to generate traffic and leads for its partners. ClickOut Media is registered in Naxxar, Malta, and runs a globally distributed team.