About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing team at Helios; an early-stage startup disrupting the HR tech space through a global SaaS platform that simplifies workforce management, global payroll, and payments. You’ll play a key role in shaping our infrastructure and deployment strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to support a secure, scalable, and high-performing product.
As a hands-on leader, you’ll work closely with engineering, product, and security teams to drive DevOps best practices and support a collaborative, high-growth environment. This role reports directly to the Head of Engineering.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure across our global SaaS platform
- Lead and mentor a small DevOps team, supporting their technical growth and ensuring team-wide alignment with engineering goals
- Build scalable systems using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Ensure system reliability, performance, monitoring, and alerting in production environments
- Champion security and compliance in deployment pipelines and infrastructure
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and compliance teams to support agile development and fast-paced releases
- Manage incident response and root cause analysis to improve system health
- Optimize cost and resource usage across cloud services
What You'll Bring
- 7+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE experience, with 2+ years in a senior or leadership capacity
- Experience building and maintaining enterprise-grade, cloud-based platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar
- Familiarity with HR or FinTech platforms is highly preferred
- Startup experience or a strong understanding of the fast-paced demands of early-stage companies
- Solid grasp of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, etc.)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills—comfortable working across teams
Nice to Have
- Experience with global compliance, data privacy, or payroll systems
- Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other compliance frameworks
Top Skills
What We Do
Helios offers a salon POS system for tanning salons, fitness centers, day spas, and beauty salons.
