Senior DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide application and platform management for production and non-production environments in ongoing Kubernetes and web service projects.
• Design high- and mid-level CI/CD pipelines for applications, and drive standardization across teams (shared libraries, reusable templates, Helm charts).
• Automate manual tasks across application deployment and development processes.
• Monitor application life cycles and intervene where necessary; own incident response, root cause analysis and post-incident follow-up.
• Provide DevOps architectural support in container migration efforts for infrastructure optimization.
• Embed security into the delivery pipeline: image and dependency scanning, static/dynamic code analysis, secret management, and policy enforcement.
• Manage platform capacity, performance, high availability, backup and disaster recovery processes.
• Define and track SLO/SLA metrics; implement alerting and on-call procedures.
• Follow new-generation DevOps practices and play an active role in application integrations.
• Work collaboratively with development, QA, infrastructure and security teams, and produce the necessary documentation and runbooks.

Skills and Experience Required

• 10+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and artifact management toolchains (Jenkins, Git, GitOps: ArgoCD / Flux, Nexus, Artifactory, SonarQube).
• Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure) as well as on-premise / hybrid infrastructure (VMware/vSphere).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Shell/Bash, Python, Ansible).
• Experienced in Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code technologies (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize).
• Experienced in container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, EKS, AKS) and cluster storage solutions (Ceph, Longhorn, CSI drivers).
• Solid Linux system administration background (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu) including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Good command of networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/IP, L4/L7 load balancing, firewalls, ingress controllers, TLS/certificate management, and Kubernetes network policies.
• Proficient in monitoring, logging and tracing for production and development environments (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Filebeat, Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, Jaeger) — installation, configuration and management.
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps tooling: vulnerability and image scanning (Trivy or equivalent), secret management (Vault or equivalent), and policy enforcement.
• Experience with backup and disaster recovery for containerized workloads (Velero or equivalent).
• Familiarity with databases, caching and messaging systems in production from an operations perspective (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, ownership mindset, ability to document what you build, and good written and spoken English.

Nice to Have

• Experience in payment systems / fintech infrastructure and working under PCI DSS scope.
• Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd).
• Relevant certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS, AWS/Azure, RHCE).
• Experience with multi-tenant platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
• Exposure to AI-assisted DevOps tooling and workflow automation.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and bonus based on performance,
• Hybrid working,
• Access to educational materials and online/class training via Udemy,
• Full coverage private health insurance including your family,
• Allowance for working from home,
• Birthday leave,
• Opportunity to learn and develop new skills from very experienced team leaders,
• Chance to be a part of a passionate and driven team where everyone’s ideas are valued.