Lead DevOps & Platform Engineer

Job Description

Realforce is looking for a Lead DevOps & Platform Engineer to take complete ownership of our cloud infrastructure, deployment platforms, and developer tooling. As our sole DevOps specialist, you will be both the strategist and the builder - architecting scalable systems while getting your hands dirty in the code to empower our product engineering teams.

You will play a pivotal role in evolving our tech stack, introducing self-service capabilities, and driving a culture of automation, reliability, and security. If you thrive in a high-impact, autonomous role where you can shape the future of a global platform from the ground up, this is for you.

Responsibilities - What You'll Do

• Drive Platform Strategy & Architecture: Own the long-term vision for our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer experience.
• Build & Scale AWS & Kubernetes: Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, high-availability cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Automate Everything: Implement Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi and drive GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
• Elevate Developer Experience: Build self-service platforms and CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Argo) to enable product teams to ship code fast, safely, and independently.
• Observability & Operations: Own system health, logging, and monitoring using Sentry and the ELK Stack, taking the lead on incident response and post-mortems.
• Database & Data Reliability: Ensure performance, backup, and scaling strategies for our production databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Elasticsearch).
• Champion Best Practices: Act as the go-to expert for cloud security, networking, cost optimization, and modern DevOps culture across the engineering organization.
  

Requirements - Who You Are & Key Skills

• Full Ownership Mindset: Comfortable being the primary technical expert for infrastructure, balancing high-level planning with daily execution.
• AWS & Kubernetes: Deep, hands-on experience managing production cloud infrastructure on AWS and containerized workloads in Kubernetes.
• IaC & GitOps: Modern Infrastructure as Code expertise with Pulumi (or Terraform) and declarative deployments via Argo CD.
• CI/CD & Scripting: Strong experience maintaining automated delivery pipelines (Jenkins/Argo) and proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Observability: Practical experience setting up and managing logging and monitoring suites (ELK, Sentry, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.).
• Data Infrastructure: Background operating production databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Elasticsearch) with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Pragmatic Collaborator: Ability to guide software engineers on cloud security, networking, and DevOps practices in an Agile setup.

Nice to Have

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud cost optimization (FinOps).
• Disaster recovery planning and multi-region AWS architectures.

Our Offer to You

• True Ownership: Unmatched autonomy to design, build, and lead the platform strategy of a rapidly growing global startup.
• High Impact: You will directly shape how our entire engineering team builds and ships software.
• Supportive Culture: Work alongside high-achieving peers in Gothenburg, Stockholm, or Malmö with a strong focus on collaboration (and competitive ping-pong).
• Flexibility: Hybrid or remote work setup to fit your lifestyle.