Senior DevOps Engineer

At Little Thinking Minds, we make learning Arabic exciting and impactful. Through engaging digital platforms, interactive content, and gamified experiences, we inspire K-12 students to read, learn, and thrive. With adaptive tools for students and support for teachers, we’re bridging literacy gaps and building a love for reading across the MENA region and beyond. Job Purpose As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Little Thinking Minds, you will take ownership of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure. You will lead initiatives to automate and optimize development and deployment pipelines, champion best practices in cloud architecture, and ensure the stability and performance of mission-critical systems. This role demands deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to guide and mentor other engineers while remaining hands-on. Location This is a hybrid role, with a combination of remote work and time in our Amman, Jordan office. Candidates must be located in Amman, Jordan. Duties and Responsibilities - Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS) with high availability, scalability, and security in mind. - Lead and evolve CI/CD pipelines to optimize build, test, and deployment processes for multiple products. - Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance, uptime, and infrastructure costs. - Implement advanced infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. - Architect and maintain observability solutions (monitoring, logging, alerting) to ensure proactive detection and resolution of issues. - Oversee deployments, releases, and rollback strategies with zero-downtime principles. - Drive security hardening, compliance readiness, and best practices across environments. - Manage DNS, SSL/TLS, networking configurations, and application-level security. - Lead disaster recovery and backup strategies for critical systems and data. - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on DevOps tools, processes, and cloud architecture best practices. - Maintain and improve documentation for infrastructure, processes, and operational standards.