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