Senior DevOps Engineer
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Better Collective, an award-winning sports media company behind products like HLTV and Futbin, is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Nis, Serbia. The role focuses on AWS infrastructure, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ECS/EKS, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, expert Linux administration, and practical AI knowledge. Perks include private health insurance, free meals, flexible hours, and a hybrid office policy (3 days/week on-site).
Are you a seasoned, goal-focused engineer eager to champion high-performing development processes and spearhead cutting-edge platform solutions in an award-winning company? Better Collective is looking for a talented Senior DevOps Engineer with a solid background in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps to design, optimize, and maintain our high-performance, secure cloud ecosystem.
The role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will serve as a key technical anchor, driving our infrastructure strategy and delivering high-impact engineering solutions that align with our business goals.. Your primary objective will be building, scaling, and automating cloud infrastructure while supporting our developer teams with reliable continuous integration and delivery capabilities. We seek a professional who bridges conventional operations with next-generation paradigms, possessing a strong operational understanding of AI workflows, focus on business goals, and the capacity to eliminate infrastructure silos.
At Better Collective, we develop sports-focused web applications and digital products. An appreciation for sports business logic helps contextualize backlog priorities, though our core focus remains absolute technical excellence across flagship products like BolaVIP, Futbin, Action Network, SitesDeApostas, ScoresAndOdds, BettingExpert, HLTV, and RotoGrinders.
Job responsibilities
AWS Infrastructure: Manage, secure, and scale AWS cloud environments.
Infrastructure as Code: Provision infrastructure using Terraform and handle configuration via Ansible.
Containers: Deploy and manage applications using Docker on AWS ECS or AWS EKS.
Serverless & Edge: Build and debug serverless applications using AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers.
CI/CD Pipelines: Set up and maintain automated pipelines exclusively via GitHub Actions.
Traffic & CDNs: Configure content delivery, caching, and routing via Cloudflare and AWS CloudFront.
Monitoring & Observability: Maintain infrastructure health tracking and alerts using Checkmk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
Networking: Manage firewalls, VPCs, and network routing.
App Support: Troubleshoot and debug environment issues for Node.js, PHP, and WordPress applications.
Technical stack
Cloud & Orchestration: AWS, AWS EC2, Docker, AWS ECS, AWS EKS. (ArgoCD is a plus)
IaC & Automation: Terraform, Ansible.
Serverless: AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers
CDN & Networking: Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, Network Routing, Firewalls, VPC
CI/CD & Git: GitHub Actions, Git, Gitflow
Databases: MySQL (Core), PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
Monitoring: Checkmk, Prometheus, Grafana
Web Servers: Nginx, Apache, AWS LoadBalancers
Languages: Node.js, PHP (WordPress ecosystem), and scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc.)
Job requirements
Experience: 5+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevOps managing complex AWS setups.
AI: Practical understanding of AI concepts, workflows, and tools to support modern Platform and engineering operations.
Mindset: Strongly focused on KPIs, project deadlines, and operational efficiency.
OS Admin: Expert-level knowledge of Linux administration (Ubuntu and Debian).
Troubleshooting: Strong diagnostic skills for live Node.js and PHP/WordPress application issues.
Benefits
Private health insurance
Sick leave 100% paid
Canteen with free meals and drinks
Flexible working hours
Additional vacation days after two years in the company
We also provide up-to date equipment, entertainment facilities in a modern office right in the city center and more.
Note: Flexible working hours and occasional work from home options in Better Collective help us achieve proper work-life balance. We strongly believe in the magic of teamwork, though, so we come to the office at least three days a week to keep the team spirits high.
Application deadline
We look forward to hearing from you and accept applications until 24th August.
Please submit your CV and cover letter in PDF; only applications submitted in English will be considered.
Expected start date: as soon as possible.
About the Company
Better Collective is a leading digital sports media group. Our vision is to be the leading digital sports media group. Every day, our talented employees across the globe aspire to do better; developing state-of-the-art technology and delivering high quality sports content to our flagship media and communities. We are guided by our values: Respect, Ambition, Integrity, and Collaboration. We celebrate our differences and believe that diversity is more than gender identity, nationality, sexual orientation; it spans across multiple dimensions including age, educational background, disabilities, religious beliefs, and diversity of thought. With offices in 12+ countries, 30+ nationalities, and 14+ different brands, we are truly a global and diverse company.
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