About the Role We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing team at Helios; an early-stage startup disrupting the HR tech space through a global SaaS platform that simplifies workforce management, global payroll, and payments. You’ll play a key role in shaping our infrastructure and deployment strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to support a secure, scalable, and high-performing product. As a hands-on leader, you’ll work closely with engineering, product, and security teams to drive DevOps best practices and support a collaborative, high-growth environment. This role reports directly to the Head of Engineering. What You’ll Do - Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure across our global SaaS platform - Lead and mentor a small DevOps team, supporting their technical growth and ensuring team-wide alignment with engineering goals - Build scalable systems using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) - Ensure system reliability, performance, monitoring, and alerting in production environments - Champion security and compliance in deployment pipelines and infrastructure - Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and compliance teams to support agile development and fast-paced releases - Manage incident response and root cause analysis to improve system health - Optimize cost and resource usage across cloud services What You'll Bring - 7+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE experience, with 2+ years in a senior or leadership capacity - Experience building and maintaining enterprise-grade, cloud-based platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) - Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) - Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar - Familiarity with HR or FinTech platforms is highly preferred - Startup experience or a strong understanding of the fast-paced demands of early-stage companies - Solid grasp of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) - Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, etc.) - Excellent communication and collaboration skills—comfortable working across teams Nice to Have - Experience with global compliance, data privacy, or payroll systems - Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other compliance frameworks #J-18808-Ljbffr