Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is one of the world's largest groups of social discovery companies, uniting millions of users on dozens of products. SDG solves the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection - transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. SDG products redefine the way people interact and connect with each other.

Our portfolio includes social entertainment platforms designed to connect people online across different cultures in different parts of the world. This includes globally recognized brands such as DateMyAge, Dating.com, EuroDate, Dil Mil and Cupid Media. SDG has a presence in more than 150 countries.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals specializing in the creation and development of globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of 1000+ professionals and digital nomads works all over the world. Our teams of digital nomads work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland, Latvia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and many other locations.

We’re proud to be a two-time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan, 2024–2025) and a Top-5 Company for Work-From-Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025).

We are looking for a Senior DevOps engineer (FinTech).

Your main tasks will be:

• Develop and scale IaC (Terraform) with a modular layered architecture (foundation → platform → workloads)
• Build and standardize CI/CD in Azure DevOps (YAML-first, reusable pipelines
  
• Operate and improve Kubernetes (AKS): lifecycle, reliability, upgrade management
  
• Implement GitOps practices (PR-driven workflows, single source of truth
  
• Enhance security (secretless auth, least privilege, Key Vault integration)
• Drive automation and observability (Datadog, LGTM stack)
• Contribute to engineering culture: code reviews, mentoring, best practices

We expect from you:

• 5+ years in DevOps / Platform / SRE roles
• 3+ years hands-on with Azure as a primary cloud (multi-subscription environments)
• Strong production Kubernetes experience (multi-env, real SLA-driven workloads)
• 2+ years of Terraform at modular/layered architecture level
  
• Solid experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML-first, reusable templates)
• Hands-on experience with Helm, GitOps practices, and infrastructure as code
• Experience with mentoring, code reviews, and knowledge sharing within a team
  
• Production on-call experience and understanding of incident response
• Ability to work in low-process environments and establish structure from scratch
• Proactive, mature mindset with strong ownership
  

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time
• 27 paid WORKING days off per year (100% compensation)
• 10 paid sick days per year (80% compensation)
• technical equipment by request (laptop, headphones, keyboard, mouse), either provided via delivery or compensated depending on the region
• educational courses for professional and personal development by request (Coursera);
• 1-to-1 language lessons on Preply (any language available on the platform) by request;
• Referral program (up to 5000 EUR).

After a successful review period (3 months), you will also gain access to:

home office setup budget: wellness budget:

Sounds good? Join us now!

The initial pay level or pay range for this role will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process and before the commencement of employment.