DevOps Engineer - Boston
About The Position
About Us Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact. We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem . Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work. At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team. Visit www.perk.com to learn more. Job Description We are seeking a Platform Engineer to join our team and help build, maintain, and scale the infrastructure and tools that empower our developers to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing services. If you’re an experienced Platform Engineer, or a Software Engineer with a passion for Platform and Developer Experience, we would love to speak with you.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience managing systems in AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Experience with containerisation and container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc.).
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go, or Bash).
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in distributed systems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Windows systems and .NET applications
- Experience with serverless architectures
- Experience with defining advanced cloud networking setups
- Familiarity with SOC2, ISO 27001, or other compliance frameworks
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure in AWS
- Enable development teams to be owners of their systems and to deliver high impact products to our users
- Partner with SRE and security teams to help developers build resilient and secure applications
- Participate in our on-call and incident management process as part of a “you build it, you run it” mentality
Benefits
- Compensation for this role is a combination of salary and stock options.
- At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.
- For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
