Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineering - Cloud Infrastructure & AI-First Platform)

YPO is the world's most influential community of chief executives, connecting more than 35,000 extraordinary business leaders. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and developer platform that will power its next generation of products, focusing on a rapidly scaling AI-first mobile platform.

Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture and day-to-day operation of YPO’s cloud infrastructure across its full lifecycle
• Architect, implement, and continuously evolve infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP — ensuring scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency
• Design and manage multi-region, highly available environments for a global AI-first platform
• Own cloud cost management and FinOps practices — including tagging strategies, reserved capacity planning, and anomaly detection
• Manage DNS, CDN, load balancing, and networking configurations to ensure global performance and failover
• Codify everything — if it cannot be automated, it should be questioned
• Lead Infrastructure as Code using Terraform — ensuring all infrastructure is version-controlled, tested, and deployed through automation
• Define IaC standards, module structures, and governance practices across engineering
• Automate environment provisioning, teardown, and configuration management across environments
• Build automation pipelines for operational tasks (certificate rotation, secrets rotation, compliance remediation, drift detection)
• Write clean, well-tested automation scripts (Python, Bash)
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines across mobile (iOS/Android), backend APIs, AI platform, and data workloads
• Implement branch strategies, environment promotion workflows, and feature flagging patterns
• Integrate automated quality gates (testing, security scanning, container scanning, IaC linting)
• Lead adoption of progressive delivery techniques (blue-green, canary, traffic shifting)
• Partner with Security to embed secure-by-default practices across all releases
• Own release documentation, change management workflows, and deployment runbooks
• Design and operate Kubernetes environments (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Manage container image governance, scanning, and lifecycle policies
• Implement service mesh, ingress controllers, and network policies
• Improve developer self-service through internal developer platforms and tooling
• Support service evolution as part of YPO’s digital transformation roadmap
• Design a comprehensive observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring)
• Define and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Build dashboards, alerting, and on-call runbooks to improve MTTD and MTTR
• Lead blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement efforts
• Own capacity planning and performance benchmarking
• Embed security controls and policy-as-code across infrastructure and pipelines
• Implement and manage secrets management solutions
• Enforce cloud security baselines and auto-remediation
• Support compliance programmes (SOC2, ISO 27001) through automation and auditability
• Manage network security and zero-trust architecture patterns
• Own internal developer experience — reducing friction and enabling self-service
• Define standards, documentation, and operational best practices
• Mentor engineers and build DevOps literacy across the organisation
• Act as a cross-functional bridge across Product, Engineering, AI/Data, and Security
• Contribute to technology decisions with clear trade-off analysis

Requirements:

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE (2+ at senior/lead level)
• Strong cloud expertise (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP exposure)
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code proficiency (required)
• CI/CD pipeline design across multiple workload types
• Strong Kubernetes experience in production environments
• Python and/or scripting for automation
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, load balancing, CDN)
• Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Experience with IAM, secrets management, and security practices
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Mobile release pipelines (iOS/Android)
• AI/ML infrastructure or data pipeline experience
• Platform engineering tools (Backstage, internal developer portals)
• FinOps / cost optimisation tooling
• Multi-region architecture and global systems experience
• Experience in global SaaS or membership platforms