DevOps Engineer

Description Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries. Papaya Global is looking for an excellent DevOps Engineer to join our growing team! You will be responsible for the development and production environments, working with the R&D teams using cutting-edge technology over AWS Cloud. You will also design, implement and maintain infrastructure, efficient CI/CD pipelines, serverless services, and Docker containers. The DevOps Engineer will provide a technical vision to Papaya Global cloud infrastructure, promote and implement cloud security best practices, identify inefficiencies in the engineering processes, and solve them using automation. You will: Design and implement Papaya Global's cloud infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments on AWS Ensure our production environment maintains the highest standards of stability, availability, and performance Review the current automation strategy partnering with stakeholders to implement a holistic, scalable solution that supports our multi-year growth trajectory Work with the Information Security team to improve security, enhance data isolation, access controls and network/application security across our infrastructure. Work closely with the R&D department in Poland, India & Israel. Leverage AI-powered engineering and DevOps tools to improve scripting, infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, observability, CI/CD optimization, and operational efficiency across cloud and production environments Requirements 3+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer 3+ years of experience with AWS Experience with K8S and Microservices Experience with Github Actions for CI/CD Pipelines Proven experience with Terraform & Terragrunt for IAC Experience with GitOps workflows and tools Experience leveraging AI tools for DevOps automation and optimization. Strong AWS networking knowledge: VPCs, subnets, security groups, and troubleshooting Track record of successful cross-team collaboration on company-wide initiatives (automation, security, migrations, monitoring) Experience implementing and maintaining secure AWS environments Strong problem-solving abilities with attention to detail Collaborative team player who thrives working independently Nice to have AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) Experience working with AWS Bedrock. Large-scale cloud environment experience (multi-region, high-availability) Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain custom GitHub Actions using JavaScript/Node.js