Senior DevOps Engineer

About the job

Kick is a global live-streaming platform for all types of entertainment content with a mission to empower content creators, event organizers, and content rights holders by providing them with the tools and revenue-sharing structures they need to monetize and grow their audiences. As a result, Kick is quickly becoming a household name, attracting top-tier creators and expanding rapidly worldwide. You may have seen the Kick logo in the UFC octagon or on the side of an F1 car, as we seize every opportunity that comes our way. Kick is the newest player in a well-established industry, and it has already made a significant impact.

We’re at the beginning of an exciting journey and are looking for brilliant minds to join us. As part of our new Belgrade Regional Engineering Office (REO), you will join a dedicated engineering center of excellence focused on performance tuning, capacity management, and ensuring that our services run as efficiently and reliably as possible. Collaborating with product and platform-focused teams across Australia, Europe and the US, this team addresses immediate performance concerns while also anticipating future scaling demands, ensuring that we effectively serve our global user base of millions, maintaining the highest standards of performance, reliability and user experience.

Who We're Looking For:

We are on the lookout for seasoned and highly proficient Senior DevOps Engineers with expertise in large scale distributed systems, and cutting-edge cloud infrastructure management. Candidates should demonstrate a proven ability to design and scale high-throughput, low-latency microservice platforms. Our technology stack encompasses Go, PHP, React, GraphQL, K8’s, AWS, TF IaC, ArgoCD, though we welcome expertise beyond our current stack. Additionally, we are deeply committed to our "you build it, you run it" principle, ensuring that our engineers take full ownership of their projects from development through to deployment and ongoing maintenance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS, Kubernetes (K8s), and Terraform (TF IaC).
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with tools such as ArgoCD and GitHub Actions to enable rapid and reliable deployments.
• Ensure infrastructure security, compliance, and best practices for cloud-native environments.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to drive DevOps best practices, automation, and operational excellence.
• Implement Site-Reliability Engineering best practices. 
• Improve and own observability, logging, and monitoring solutions using Datadog or similar tools.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior DevOps engineers, driving best practices in infrastructure as code, cloud security, and site reliability.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure engineering, with a focus on Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform.
• Deep expertise in managing and scaling cloud-based infrastructure with AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, etc.).
•  Strong experience in container orchestration with Kubernetes, Helm, and service meshes.
• Proficiency in CI/CD automation using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Hands-on experience in monitoring, logging, and observability using Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools.
• Solid understanding of security best practices, networking, and performance tuning in distributed cloud environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in complex distributed systems.

Some Of The Perks Of Working For Us

• Private health insurance for you and your family
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform
• Vibrant office in the city center
• Daily warm meals
• Flexible working hours
• Unlimited access to drinks and snacks