Senior DevOps Engineer

2 weeks ago

Amman, Amman, Jordan Little Thinking Minds Full time

At Little Thinking Minds, we make learning Arabic exciting and impactful. Through engaging digital platforms, interactive content, and gamified experiences, we inspire K-12 students to read, learn, and thrive. With adaptive tools for students and support for teachers, we're bridging literacy gaps and building a love for reading across the MENA region and beyond.

Job Purpose

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Little Thinking Minds, you will take ownership of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure. You will lead initiatives to automate and optimize development and deployment pipelines, champion best practices in cloud architecture, and ensure the stability and performance of mission-critical systems. This role demands deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to guide and mentor other engineers while remaining hands-on.

Location

This is a hybrid role, with a combination of remote work and time in our Amman, Jordan office. Candidates must be located in Amman, Jordan.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS) with high availability, scalability, and security in mind.
  • Lead and evolve CI/CD pipelines to optimize build, test, and deployment processes for multiple products.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance, uptime, and infrastructure costs.
  • Implement advanced infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
  • Architect and maintain observability solutions (monitoring, logging, alerting) to ensure proactive detection and resolution of issues.
  • Oversee deployments, releases, and rollback strategies with zero-downtime principles.
  • Drive security hardening, compliance readiness, and best practices across environments.
  • Manage DNS, SSL/TLS, networking configurations, and application-level security.
  • Lead disaster recovery and backup strategies for critical systems and data.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on DevOps tools, processes, and cloud architecture best practices.
  • Maintain and improve documentation for infrastructure, processes, and operational standards
Required skills
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
  • 5+ years of proven experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
  • Expert-level proficiency in AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
  • Strong background in Linux system administration and shell scripting.
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar).
  • Solid understanding of networking, load balancing, and DNS management.
  • Proven experience deploying and maintaining large-scale PHP/LAMP and containerized applications.
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills for production environments.
  • Proficiency in version control systems (Git) and branching strategies.
  • Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS).
Nice to Have
  • Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP).
  • Knowledge of security frameworks and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).
  • Experience with cost optimization strategies in cloud environments.

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