Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hard Rock Digital is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and scale its internal developer platform for gaming and entertainment products. The role focuses on Backstage, self-service workflows, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security and compliance guardrails, and AI-enabled platform engineering.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate our internal developer platform on Backstage, including software catalog, templates, plugins, and scorecards that give engineers a consistent, self-service experience across the stack
- Create golden-path templates and self-service workflows (Backstage Software Templates, Terraform/Terragrunt modules, CI/CD scaffolding) that let product teams provision infrastructure, services, and environments without filing a ticket
- Architect and implement scalable AWS and hybrid-cloud infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt and related Infrastructure as Code tools, exposed to engineering teams through self-service platform interfaces
- Design, build, and optimize highly available containerized environments leveraging EKS, Kubernetes, and Docker, and surface them as consumable platform primitives
- Lead the automation strategy for CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and similar), building reusable, self-service pipeline patterns that scale across teams
- Champion security and compliance by design, embedding guardrails, identity/access controls, and policy-as-code directly into the self-service platform so "paved road" is always the secure road
- Partner with product engineering, SRE, QA, security, and operations teams to identify friction points and convert them into platform capabilities that improve developer experience and velocity
- Define and track developer experience (DevEx) and platform adoption metrics (lead time, self-service usage, ticket deflection) to demonstrate platform impact
- Leverage AI tools fluently as a core part of your daily workflow—using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex), agentic automation, and LLM-powered tooling to accelerate platform delivery, generate and review Backstage plugins/templates, and help the broader team adopt AI-enabled ways of working
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity
- A track record of designing self-service workflows and golden paths that reduce toil and ticket volume for product engineering teams
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native architectures (multi-account setups, VPC design, IAM policies, networking)
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Docker, and Helm for container orchestration and management
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise using Terraform/Terragrunt, with deep understanding of modular design and reusability suitable for self-service consumption
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, TypeScript/Node.js (useful for Backstage plugin development), or other relevant languages
- Experience leading CI/CD initiatives and designing scalable, self-service delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or comparable tools
- Strong understanding of observability practices and performance monitoring frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, etc.), ideally surfaced through platform tooling
- Comprehensive knowledge of networking, security hardening, and compliance in regulated industries, and experience embedding these as automated guardrails
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction in cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated fluency with AI development tools (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), including practical experience integrating AI assistants into infrastructure workflows, platform tooling, code review, incident response, or documentation. The ability to operate at AI-enabled development velocity is a core expectation of this role, not a nice-to-have
- Hands-on experience building or operating an internal developer platform (IDP)—Backstage strongly preferred—including catalog design, software templates, and custom plugin development
- AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator) strongly preferred
Benefits
- Flexible vacation allowance
- A hybrid / remote working environment
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
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