Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Purpose

Who we are, what we are doing?

• Our flagship Cloud system (codenamed Language Cloud) is a SaaS platform developed by RWS that exposes as a service the best of our multilingual content capabilities and enables expressing our language expertise that made us leaders in the translation industry.

• We're evolving from traditional DevOps operations toward a Platform-as-Product model, building self-service capabilities and golden paths for development teams. This role balances operational excellence (maintaining platform infrastructure across 6 environments) with platform innovation (building developer tooling, automation, and infrastructure-as-code solutions).

• We're looking for engineers who can both operate complex systems AND build platforms that enable team autonomy.

• We have been building Language Cloud in a microservice architecture using Java, C# and a variety of other technologies. Our engineers are experienced with various build and deployment pipelines. We implement Continuous Delivery using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Nexus, deploying our services on native cloud infrastructure from AWS (and in the future not limited to)

About Transform

At RWS, we enable the world's largest enterprises to communicate with global audiences through cutting-edge language technology, AI-driven solutions, and expert services. Our RWS Transform division empowers organizations to accelerate digital transformation, scale global content, and unlock growth in every market.

What you'll be doing:

• Build and operate the only end-to-end intelligent cloud-native platform powering multiple industry leading translation management and productivity products

• Work closely with development and product teams throughout the dev lifecycle and deployment process, to ensure high-quality releases and successful outcomes

• Responsible for application deployments, monitoring, and overall service availability while building automation and self-service tools to reduce operational toil

• Understand system limitations and building observability tools to maintain infrastructure reliability and/or alert on potential production issues

• Configuration and management of: EKS/Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, Java micro-services, .NET Core micro-services, .NET Framework services, VMs/EC2 instances, MongoDB clusters, ElasticSearch clusters, RabbitMQ, Redis, and related technologies on AWS

• Release management and CI/CD pipeline experience using modern solutions such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, ArgoCD and Nexus, plus close collaboration with product and engineering to ensure successful deployment and observability

• Familiarity with IaC tools including Terraform, Chef, and CloudFormation is highly valued

What we're looking for:

• Platform engineering mindset: Experience building shared tooling, internal platforms, or automation frameworks – not just operating infrastructure. Comfortable writing code (Python, Go, Bash) to solve infrastructure problems programmatically.

• Strong team player with excellent communication, documentation and problem-solving skills

• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration including managing servers, shell scripting, networking, performance tuning, troubleshooting and internals

• 10+ years of relevant experience in similar roles

• Capable of independently investigate and solve complex software issues with minimal supervision. Experience working in an Agile environment

• Familiarity with EKS/Kubernetes, Docker and AWS represent a major advantage

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience

What makes you a great fit:

• Automation-first mindset: You default to building scalable, reusable infrastructure solutions rather than one-off manual fixes. Experience with infrastructure platforms or internal tooling development is highly valued

• Ability to learn new technology stacks while leveraging your deep historical expertise

• Strong Linux and Windows knowledge

• Experience with Cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure

• Experience with Chef/Ansible/Terraform/CloudFormation or other similar technologies

• Experience working with large-scale workflows and distributed processing systems

Life at RWS - If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you'll love life at RWS. 

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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