Senior DevOps Engineer

🚀 About Us Launched in March 2023, Yakeey is a Startup disrupting Morocco's real estate market by transforming the traditionally complex and time-consuming process of buying, selling, and renting properties into a streamlined, transparent, and reliable end-to-end experience. We believe in agility, innovation, and customer-centric products. 👤 About the Role In a context of strong growth, we are reinforcing our engineering team and looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, scale and secure our cloud-native platform. You will work at the heart of our AWS infrastructure with a strong focus on scalability, automation and resilience. Security is not a checkbox here; it is an engineering reflex. 🔎 Responsibilities • Design, deploy and maintain robust cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC…) • Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters (EKS) in production, ensuring reliability and security at every layer, while overseeing staging environments with a focus on hosting cost control and monitoring. • Champion Developer Experience by building reliable, transparent GitLab CI/CD pipelines, allowing our engineers to focus on shipping code rather than debugging the deployment process • Automate infrastructure with Terraform and promote a rigorous Infrastructure as Code culture across the organisation • Embed security at every stage (DevSecOps): workload hardening, secrets management, IAM compliance, image and dependency scanning • Set up and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / CloudWatch) • Participate in incident management and drive continuous improvement with an SRE mindset • Work closely with development teams to raise the collective DevOps maturity of the organisation Tech stack • Cloud : AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC) • Orchestration Kubernetes (EKS) · Helm • CI/CD: GitLab CI · GitOps • Containers: Docker • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch • Scripting Bash · Python • Security DevSecOps, IAM hardening • 7+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud or SRE environments - building better systems, not just surviving on-call rotations • Strong command of AWS and Kubernetes (EKS), you know what is running in your cluster and why it is there • A genuine security mindset: you think "least privilege", "zero trust" and "blast radius" before anyone asks you to • Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab ideally) and a well-established Infrastructure as Code culture • Ability to work autonomously, make technical decisions and defend them clearly • Collaborative mindset, oriented toward continuous improvement and comfortable working hand-in-hand with development teams • Proficiency in French or Arabic is a plus; strong technical English is required The recruitment process at Yakeey includes: • A first conversation with the HR team to get to know you and introduce our project • A test or a practical case study related to the position • A role-specific interview with your future manager • A final meeting with top management (if needed) • If everything is approved, we will send you an offer, and off we go! 🎉 On your first day, the HR team will welcome you and immerse you in the Yakeey universe: our mission, our challenges, and our tools. Then you’ll join your team for a tailored onboarding experience. Why Join Yakeey?At Yakeey, you’ll focus on building high-impact, elegant, and scalable frontend experiences within a domain-focused team, while contributing to a unified and innovative real estate platform. You'll collaborate with specialists in backend, AI, data, and DevOps to bring ideas to life on a modern tech stack. If you're passionate and love working in a collaborative, mission-driven environment, we’d love to hear from you.