Dev Ops Engineer

About the role

ClickOut Media is not just a company - it's a thriving ecosystem of diverse talent from around the globe. As a proudly remote-first organisation, we've cultivated an environment where creativity flourishes, collaboration is core, and innovation knows no bounds. With over +1000 team members, our startup culture fuels our growth, making us a leading force in multi-channel marketing. We specialise in delivering best-in-class SEO & Content solutions to esteemed clients worldwide.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team and help operate, maintain and evolve the infrastructure behind our core affiliate tracking platform. Our infrastructure is primarily hosted on AWS, so strong hands-on AWS experience is essential. You will work across cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, infrastructure as code, configuration management, containerised workloads, CI/CD pipelines, databases, monitoring and production operations. This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who is comfortable taking ownership of production infrastructure, troubleshooting complex issues and improving the reliability and automation of our environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain and troubleshoot production infrastructure primarily hosted on AWS
• Manage AWS environments and services including: AWS Organizations: EC2, Application Load Balancers (ALB), Lambdas, S3, RDS / Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache / Redis, SQS and SNS, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, AWS WAF
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, with an emphasis on repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure.
• Maintain and improve server and application configuration using Ansible.
• Operate containerised applications using Docker and Docker Compose.
• Build, maintain and improve Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and operational workflows.
• Monitor infrastructure and applications using Grafana, Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch.
• Manage and troubleshoot database infrastructure including MySQL / Aurora, DynamoDB and ClickHouse.
• Operate and troubleshoot Redis-based workloads using AWS ElastiCache.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes and implement permanent fixes.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, security and performance.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual infrastructure management.
• Review infrastructure changes and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
• Maintain appropriate backup, recovery, monitoring and alerting processes.
• Work closely with developers and other technical teams to support application deployments and production environments.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of AWS networking, security, IAM and infrastructure architecture.
• Production experience with several of the AWS services used in our stack, particularly EC2, ALB, S3, RDS/Aurora, CloudWatch and AWS Organizations.
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with Ansible or comparable configuration-management tooling.
• Good working