What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Remote, Italy) position at Nearform?
This is a remote position for those based in Italy.
About Nearform
Nearform is an independent team of engineers, designers, data experts and strategists who build intelligent digital solutions and capability at pace. We create software solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. In these ways, we partner with ambitious enterprises to deliver enduring impact.
Our deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems, with confidence.
Today, our team of 500 experts in 20 countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart.
As part of our Engineering function, you will work closely with clients to translate complex business requirements into innovative digital products.
Whether you are a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, or DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with distributed teams, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build secure, high-performance applications. Our Nearform engineers are known for building high quality, scalable solutions that solve real world problems.
The Role
As a DevOps Engineer at Nearform, you will work on client projects developing infrastructure to support cloud-based applications, creating deployment architect and continuous delivery pipelines, designing high-availability approaches, and implementing monitoring architecture (dashboards, alerts, escalations).
Essential skills
- Proficient communication in English (oral and written)
- Experience delivering at an enterprise level and a remote agile environment.
- Experience managing and automating complex platforms/applications on AWS, Azure and GCP highly desirable
- Experience working with containers and container orchestration, ideally including Kubernetes K8s
- Experience with infrastructure as code technology, ideally with Terraform/CloudFormation
- Experience with CI and building CD pipelines, ideally with Github Actions, Jenkins
- Experience in scripting and automating processes using Python
- Data storage experience with RDBMS and NoSQL technologies
- Solid understanding of observability practices across the stack
- Strong understanding of security best practices across CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and microservices.
- Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to work with stakeholders, feeling comfortable in client-facing roles where you will drive technical discussions and advise on best practices and approaches.
Desirable skills
- Experience with Ansible
- Python, Golang
- Experience with other cloud technologies such as Azure or GCP
- Experience working as a consultant
About Us
At Nearform, we value collaboration and a curious mindset that fuels our dynamic team. With a decade of experience, we've achieved meaningful results for our clients while maintaining the agile and transparent ethos of a startup.
Our focus on digital transformation means creating practical, user-centric products that help enterprises enter markets quickly, enhance customer experiences, and reshape workflows. Bolstered by recent investment, Nearform is gearing up to extend its impact to more enterprises.
Despite our global presence, Nearformers form a close-knit community built on trust and camaraderie. Join us at Nearform and be part of a journey marked by innovation and progress.
Benefits & Perks we offer at Nearform
- Annual Company Bonus - We all help Nearform to hit company goals so we all receive a share of the profits on an annual basis in line with company performance.
- Work Remotely and Flexibly - We have a genuine dedication to work/life balance. Our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem!
- Paid Time Off Package - We offer an annual leave of 28 days plus public holidays. We also offer sick leave, marriage leave and many more.
- Remote Working Allowance - Every 2 years, you will have a budget of up to €1250 to help you set up a comfortable and productive workspace in addition to your essential equipment provided by Nearform when you join.
- Training and Development Allowance - We understand the importance of continuously learning so we offer an allowance of up to €1000 you can use to upskill yourself.
- Healthcare - It’s important to always take care of your health, so we offer additional private healthcare here at Nearform. If you wish to learn more about the plan offered feel free to reach out to our team.
- Pension & Insurances - We provide state pension private pension with a match up to 1.55%, and Death in Service cover for peace of mind.
Recruitment/Application process
- A TalentCall with someone from the Talent team (30 mins approx.) to introduce to you Nearform and the role, and to make sure your experience is relevant for the position and to discuss life as a Nearformer
- An assessment with a member of the hiring team (1 hr approx.), this session is carried out using a screen share. You will be given a challenge and asked to provide a working solution to a specified problem.
- A video call with one of our Hiring Managers (45 mins approx.) which allows us to gain a better insight into what interests you, your technical background, and give you an overview of the work we do at Nearform.
Nearform is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence.
