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DevOps Engineer (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)

shakers Italy
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Join a fast-growing fintech as a freelance DevOps Engineer to scale and maintain an AWS-native stack. Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Key Highlights
Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code with Terraform
Manage a large production environment running reliably at scale
Key Responsibilities
Design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Secret Manager, OpenSearch, Kafka)
Run containerized workloads on Kubernetes/EKS: cluster management, scaling, deployment strategies, high availability
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) to automate builds, testing and deployments
Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform across the full stack
Implement monitoring, logging and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog, CloudWatch)
Apply cloud security best practices: IAM, security groups, VPC
Handle infra change requests from backend and frontend teams and automate operational processes
Technical Skills Required
Amazon Web Services Kubernetes Terraform
Benefits & Perks
Full remote work
Freelance opportunity
12 months renewable contract
Nice to Have
Azure DevOps
Observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/OpenSearch)
Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)
Ansible
Fintech background
Italian

Job Description


DevOps Engineer (AWS · Terraform · Kubernetes) — Freelance / Full Remote


We're hiring a DevOps Engineer for a freelance collaboration through Shakers, joining the infrastructure team of a fast-growing fintech to scale and maintain an AWS-native stack.

You'll work directly alongside the existing infrastructure engineer, owning the flow of infrastructure change requests from the development teams, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and keeping a large production environment running reliably at scale.


What you'll do

  • Design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Secret Manager, OpenSearch, Kafka)
  • Run containerized workloads on Kubernetes/EKS: cluster management, scaling, deployment strategies, high availability
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) to automate builds, testing and deployments
  • Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform across the full stack
  • Implement monitoring, logging and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog, CloudWatch)
  • Apply cloud security best practices: IAM, security groups, VPC
  • Handle infra change requests from backend and frontend teams and automate operational processes


What we're looking for

  • 3+ years in DevOps or Cloud Engineering
  • Strong hands-on AWS in production (EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB)
  • Proven Kubernetes experience for orchestration and cluster management
  • Extensive Terraform experience as the primary IaC tool
  • Excelent command of English


Nice to have: Azure DevOps, observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/OpenSearch), scripting (Python/Bash/Go), Ansible, fintech background, Italian.


Setup: Full remote · Start ASAP · 12 months (renewable)


This is a freelance opportunity managed through Shakers, the platform connecting top tech freelancers with the projects that fit them best. Apply and let's talk.


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