Senior DevOps Engineer

📍Applications are open for Bulgaria-based candidates only

At Perkbox, we’re on a mission to help every employee feel valued, and through our all-in-one platform, we deliver meaningful benefits, recognition, and wellbeing solutions that make a real difference to employees every day. But it starts with our own people.

We’re building a culture that reflects what we offer: prioritising wellbeing, celebrating impact, and empowering growth. If you’re excited by purpose-driven work, fast-paced growth, and creating better employee experiences at scale, you’ll fit right in.

As we continue to grow our Bulgaria-based team, we’re hiring an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure across our cloud and on-premises environments.

You'll play a key role in improving platform reliability, driving automation, strengthening security, and enabling the efficient delivery of technology solutions across the business.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes (EKS), ECS and serverless platforms to ensure performance, resilience and cost efficiency.
• Build, improve and automate CI/CD pipelines to deliver reliable and efficient software deployments.
• Embed DevSecOps practices, including security scanning, secrets management and policy-driven controls.
• Own observability and monitoring capabilities, including alerting, performance monitoring and incident response.
• Support platform resilience through backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and on-call participation.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security and business teams to deliver platform improvements and manage technical risk.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks and operational processes while championing continuous improvement.

Skills and experience required:

• 4+ years' experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering or similar role.
• Strong experience managing secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and hybrid environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), containers and modern cloud-native technologies.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong Linux and Windows administration skills within production environments.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, system architecture and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.

Work Mode & Salary:

Remote working within Bulgaria only. We do have an office in Plovdiv should you wish to work hybrid.

Gross annual salary: €50,000 to €56,000 based on experience.

Interview Process

Online interview with the Senior Talent Advisor

75-minute technical interview with Engineering Leads

45-minute final interview with the Director of Engineering

Diversity & Inclusion

At Perkbox, we are committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations. We are happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process — just let us know, and we’ll make it work for you.