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Senior DevOps Engineer (all genders)
About this role
Sunday Natural is one of Germany’s fastest-growing natural health brands, and our eCommerce platform is growing with it – today it serves 7 million monthly active users, runs on €400k of AWS per year, and supports a development organization of 30+ engineers. Every one of those numbers has moved sharply upward in the last few years, and all of them will keep moving. You would be our first dedicated in-house Senior DevOps Engineer – and the two biggest engineering projects of the next two years are yours to help define and drive: bringing our entire infrastructure under Terraform, and strengthening the scalability, security and compliance posture across our cloud environments.
YOUR ROLE - You shape the infrastructure vision. How we run, deploy, monitor and scale is yours to define, propose and defend. - You work alongside our two external partners as the in-house technical counterpart – building the architecture and standards together, and bringing the deep platform knowledge back into the company. As the platform grows, taking the technical direction of that group is a natural next step, and one we would actively support.
- You own our AWS spend – €400k a year that currently has no dedicated owner, including where it goes and how we bring it down. - You are the escalation point. When production is at risk, you decide. - You report directly to the Head of eCommerce Platforms, with direct access to leadership for the decisions that need it. WHAT YOU'LL OWN - AWS infrastructure – EC2, RDS, Fargate, CloudFront, S3, IAM – plus Cloudflare, DNS and WAF - Security & compliance – DevSecOps practices, system audits, patching and access reviews, and GDPR-compliant data handling across every environment - Infrastructure as code – taking us from manually managed to fully Terraform-defined - Data layer – MySQL under production load: tuning, replication, and backups you have actually restored from - Cloud economics – a €350k annual AWS budget with real headroom for optimisation - Delivery for 30+ developers – Bitbucket Pipelines, environments, and how fast and safely code reaches production - Reliability at 7M MAU – monitoring, logging, alerting and incident response (New Relic, Sentry, CloudWatch, PagerDuty) YOUR PROFILE - 7+ years running production infrastructure, with deep hands-on AWS as the person accountable when it breaks - Security-conscious infrastructure operations – DevSecOps practices, system audits and access reviews, comfortable being accountable for GDPR-relevant data handling - Infrastructure as code at scale – Terraform as your default way of working, on an estate of comparable size - Deep Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) – you can trace a slow system from the kernel up and explain what you found - MySQL under real load – slow-query analysis, replication, indexing, tested recovery - Ownership of monitoring and incident response at scale – you have built the alerting that catches problems before customers report them, using tooling like New Relic, Datatog, etc.