Senior DevOps Engineer

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

• Experience with global compliance, data privacy, or payroll systems
• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other compliance frameworks

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