Offer summary

Qualifications:

7+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE experience, including 2+ years in a senior or leadership role., Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins., Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and strong scripting skills in languages like Bash or Python., Familiarity with HR or FinTech platforms and a solid understanding of observability tools..

Key responsibilities:

Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure for a global SaaS platform.

Lead and mentor a small DevOps team, ensuring alignment with engineering goals.

Champion security and compliance in deployment pipelines and manage incident response.

Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and compliance teams to support agile development.

Job description

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