Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer reporting to Senior Director of Software Engineering, you'll play a critical role in shaping and owning the AWS and Kubernetes platform foundation that underpins a new R&D team focused on responsible AI for global financial markets. You'll thrive in this position if you're a technically rigorous, ownership-driven engineer who sets direction with confidence, mentors others generously, and brings curiosity and pragmatism to problems that don't always have a known answer upfront. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and automate AWS infrastructure using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, establishing infrastructure-as-code as the standard across the team. Own Kubernetes clusters end-to-end — including Helm charts, networking, RBAC, ingress, security, and upgrades — ensuring reliability and scalability of containerized services. Establish and evolve observability, secrets management, high availability, and reliability practices across all environments. Mentor DevOps and software engineers, contribute to solution design and requirements analysis, and champion AI-assisted workflows throughout the software development lifecycle. Drive the adoption of AI-based tooling across products, services, and CI/CD pipelines, and take on Agile process roles (e.g., Scrum Master or Product Owner) as needed to support team delivery. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. Several years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or a related discipline, with production-level ownership on AWS or a comparable cloud platform. Deep hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or OpenTofu. Proven Kubernetes ownership including Helm charts, networking, ingress, RBAC, upgrades, and security hardening. Strong experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitLab) and applying Git as the single source of truth across the team. Demonstrated experience setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and introducing AI-assisted workflows into the software development lifecycle. Preferred Qualifications Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling such as FluxCD or Argo CD, and multi-cloud exposure (Azure or GCP alongside AWS). Experience with Ansible or comparable configuration management tooling, and SQL/database troubleshooting skills. Background in fintech, capital markets, or a regulated industry environment. This position will be located in Vilnius, Lithuania, and offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment at least 3 days a week in-office, subject to change, providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates. Benefits & Rewards We offer a competitive, well-rounded rewards package designed to support the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of our employees and their families (where applicable). The base pay for this role is 4800 eur to 6000 eur gross. The actual pay depends on factors like your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, we offer short-term incentives (bonus or commission) and long-term incentives (equity), where applicable. We utilize a structured job architecture and career framework to ensure growth opportunities are transparent, fair, and accessible to all employees. The pay range you see reflects the full salary band for this job level, including room for progression over time. For more information, visit Nasdaq Benefits & Rewards Career Page . Come as You Are Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives, experiences, and identities are valued and celebrated. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process.