Staff Dev Ops Engineer

Join our Platform Engineering team and play a critical role in modernizing and optimizing our development infrastructure. You'll be responsible for managing artifact repositories, ensuring stability of development and pre-production environments, and implementing automation that accelerates delivery while maintaining high standards of reliability and security. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on how hundreds of engineers across The Stepstone Group build and deploy software.  

The Developer Platform at StepStone empowers teams to build secure, high-quality software through intuitive tools, automated workflows, and robust governance. By fostering creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement, our platform removes barriers and maximises developer flow, enabling every engineer to deliver impactful solutions that reflect our commitment to excellence and innovation.   

This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody. 

Your Responsibilities : 

• Establish governance policies and implement security controls for our tools and cloud resources 
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring reproducible, version-controlled environments 
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and maintenance tasks 
• Ensure the stability, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our environments 
• Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions including cost anomaly detection and security monitoring 

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles
• AWS certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator, or similar) with hands-on experience across EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, CloudFront, and ECS/EKS
• Infrastructure-as-Code expertise with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
• Linux/Unix systems administration with strong command-line skills and scripting abilities (Python preferred; Bash, Go, or similar)
• Network architecture design and implementation experience including VPCs, security groups, and network ACLs

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• Medical and dental care
• Life insurance
• Benefit platform budget
• Employee Referral Programme
• Hackathons, Knowledge Sharing Hours
• In-house projects
• Events and integration parties
• Charity initiatives, 2 extra volunteer days
• English/German lessons
• Game room and chillout zone

Our commitment 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.