Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS Data Platforms)

About the role

CORTO is a software company building AI-driven tools for legal practitioners, and it is growing from 80 to 250+ employees. Its DevOps team builds and maintains scalable infrastructure across multiple AWS regions for several development and quality engineering teams. The company is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on AWS data platforms, particularly RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Valkey caches and OpenSearch, who will own their reliability, performance and security.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the reliability, performance and capacity of RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Valkey and OpenSearch, balancing availability and cost
• Lead upgrades and migrations, maintain backup and recovery procedures, and help developers improve queries and data access patterns
• Build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across environments and regions using Infrastructure as Code
• Automate repetitive work and improve CI/CD pipelines with reusable, self-service tooling
• Maintain monitoring and alerts, lead incident investigations, write operational runbooks and take part in the weekly out-of-hours on-call rotation
• Apply secure defaults, including least-privilege access, encryption and secrets management, and audit against AWS best practices
• Partner with development and QE teams, mentor engineers and review infrastructure and automation changes

Required profile

• Typically 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud, Platform or Site Reliability Engineering, or a related role
• Demonstrated ownership of production databases and cloud infrastructure
• Track record of improving processes through automation and leading complex technical investigations
• Experience guiding other engineers and working across development and operational teams
• Background in DBA, Software Engineering, Support Engineering or Quality Engineering is valued

Required skills

• Hands-on production AWS infrastructure, including networking, IAM, security and observability
• PostgreSQL administration, preferably RDS and Aurora, including query tuning, indexing, locking and recovery
• DynamoDB, Valkey or Redis-compatible caches, and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
• Scripting or programming in Python, Bash, C# or JavaScript
• Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, Git and code review
• AWS certifications are desirable

What we offer

• Flexible and hybrid working
• Career and learning opportunities in a fast-paced, global company
• Well-being perks including extra time off and gym membership
• Social activities, sports teams and access to sailing and yacht events
• LEAP Home, a program supporting first home purchase