Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) VoD/AVoD/Streaming ideally

Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS platform engineering for high-throughput, low-latency systems. Hands-on expertise in Akka/Java microservices, JVM tuning, and asynchronous, event-driven architectures. If you are suitable and passionate about scaling distributed systems and optimizing cloud performance, then this could be for you. Apply today and help power the next generation of global video streaming and video advertising .

This role can be fully remote from the UK OR EU (must have right to work in EU or UK
Market rate depending on experience - IR35 TBC

Join a fast-paced engineering team building a high-scale, ad-supported video streaming platform used by millions. As our Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll take ownership of AWS infrastructure and automation that powers our low-latency, ad-serving Java microservices.

We're looking for a hands-on engineer who thrives in large-scale, high-performance environments - someone who can design, automate, and optimize systems to achieve

What You'll Do

• Design and deploy end-to-end AWS environments (landing zones, VPCs, networking, security, automation).
• Build immutable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices (Maven/Gradle) with blue/green, canary, and rollback strategies.
• Implement observability: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs/SLIs, alerting, and on-call runbooks.
• Engineer for scale and reliability - autoscaling, caching, multi-AZ/region DR, and performance tuning to meet 5M+ user load.
• Apply security-by-design using IAM least privilege, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF/Shield, and CIS compliance.
• Collaborate with developers and performance engineers to tune JVM, Akka, thread pools, GC, and infra limits.
• Drive cost optimization through tagging, reporting dashboards, and resource management.

What We're Looking For

• Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS platform engineering
• 3-5+ years of senior-level AWS platform engineering for high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Proven experience owning production environments with 10k-1M+ concurrent users and 99.9x SLOs
• Hands-on expertise in Akka/Java microservices, JVM tuning, and asynchronous, event-driven architectures
• Strong grasp of resilience techniques (circuit breakers, retries, chaos engineering)
• Fluent in English (C1 level)
• Nice to have - Java development experience, strong microservices knowledge, Terraform proficiency

Location: Remote (Europe)
Start date: Within 1-3 weeks of offer

Tech Stack:
AWS: EKS/ECS, EC2, ALB/NLB, API Gateway, Lambda, S3/CloudFront, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Aurora, MSK/Kinesis, OpenSearch, Route53, WAF/Shield, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager
IaC & CI/CD: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker
Observability: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
Automation: Bash, Python (plus Java build/release familiarity)

Interested?
If you're passionate about scaling distributed systems and optimizing cloud performance, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help power the next generation of global video streaming.

Everybody is welcome
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