Senior DevOps Engineer @ Railsware
Railsware
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team!
You will own and evolve Mailtrap's production infrastructure — a multi-region AWS platform powering high-volume email sending and testing. You will keep it reliable, secure, and cost-efficient day-to-day.
Our engineering team thrives in an agile, continuously improving, and automation-oriented environment. We value ongoing evolution, objective evaluation of our processes, and taking action to make things better.
Must-have skills
5+ years DevOps/platform (senior), production ownershipDeep AWS (VPC, ECS, IAM, RDS/ElastiCache or equivalents, networking)
Terraform at scale (modules, remote state / Terraform Cloud)
CI/CD with GitHub Actions, including automated deploys to production (e.g. blue/green deployments)
Containers (Docker); comfortable operating services on ECS or K8s
Strong Linux networking (DNS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, VPN/hybrid)
Comfortable owning a multi-quarter infra initiative: TCO, design, vendors, cutover, rollback
Comfortable automating operational tasks with shell and/or Python
Fluent English (both spoken and written)
Strongly preferred:
Replacing managed AWS services with self-hosted (Postgres HA, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, OpenSearch)
Email infrastructure (MTA, SMTP, IP reputation, DKIM/SPF/DMARC) — Halon or similar
Cloudflare (DNS/WAF/Access)
Observability beyond CloudWatch (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki or equivalent)
Prior work with multi-region SaaS or EU data residency
Cost-driven architecture / FinOps mindset
Would be a plus:
- GCP (BigQuery/certificates)
- Comfortable reading Ruby or Go (used in our services and tooling)
- AWS Certificates
- Proven experience planning and executing migration to on-prem, colo, or private cloud (partial/hybrid OK — full exit not required)
- Colo/bare-metal ops: IPAM (NetBox), Ansible, image-based provisioning (Packer or equivalent), HAProxy/Nginx
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team!
You will own and evolve Mailtrap's production infrastructure — a multi-region AWS platform powering high-volume email sending and testing. You will keep it reliable, secure, and cost-efficient day-to-day.
Our engineering team thrives in an agile, continuously improving, and automation-oriented environment. We value ongoing evolution, objective evaluation of our processes, and taking action to make things better.