Middle DevOps Engineer
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πͺπΈ SpainπΊπ¦ Ukraineπ΅πΉ Portugalπ΅π± Polandπ Remoteπ Full TimeβοΈ Mid-LevelβοΈ Devops Engineerπ° zΕ17k - zΕ26k / monthπ΅ Bonusπ Equity
KubernetesTerraformJenkinsBashPythonGoAWSPostgreSQLKafka
π Description
- We are seeking a proactive and self-sufficient DevOps Engineer to join our team.
- You will be instrumental in the design, construction, and maintenance of our core infrastructure.
- Your focus will be on enhancing the entire developer experience by owning the shared infrastructure tools, services, and environments that enable speed, reliability, and security across the organization.
- Infrastructure Evolution: Driving the IaC 2.0 initiative β modernizing our Terragrunt-based repositories, eliminating configuration drift, and ensuring 100% IaC coverage. You will explore and implement AI-driven tools for configuration reviews and impact analysis, reducing human error and support burden.
- GitOps Evaluation: Leading the evaluation of GitOps for three strategic use-cases: simplifying K8s cluster configurations, managing Staging environment states, and potentially replacing current CD implementations for our products.
- Platform Reliability: Enhancing EKS control plane observability and experimenting with nftables adoption to improve network performance and stability.
- Platform & IaC Ownership: Analyze and implement infrastructure designs for services and shared components, managing them as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and Helm within our cloud environment (AWS).
- Delivery Lifecycle Management: Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines and own the full delivery lifecycle of infrastructure tools, services, and components from development testing through to production rollout.
- Developer Enablement: Actively participate in regular support cadences to provide hands-on technical assistance and expertise to development teams regarding platform adoption and usage.
- Reliability Integration: Integrate and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting components for platform services, and participate in the team's on-call rotation for immediate incident mitigation within the platform ownership scope.
- Security & Compliance: Collaborate closely with the Security team to embed DevSecOps best practices and guardrails, ensuring the security and compliance of the platform and delivery process.
- Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvements in platform tooling usability, deployment efficiency, and environment stability.
π― Requirements
- Education: While a degree in Computer Science or IT is a nice-to-have, weβre most interested in your technical skills and real-world expertise. Certifications (Bonus): Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is highly desirable, as well as relevant certifications from major cloud providers (e.g., AWS Certified SysOps Administrator).
- Experience: Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in a DevOps, Platform, or SRE role, with a focus on operating and troubleshooting production environments built on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS). Proven experience contributing to the design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines and IaC infrastructure for large-scale microservice architectures.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Kubernetes and Terraform for provisioning cloud resources (AWS) and managing infrastructure as code (IaC). Deep understanding of CI/CD principles and tooling (e.g., GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins). Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python/Go) for automation. Strong grasp of Networking fundamentals (VPC, DNS, Load Balancing). Familiarity with AI/ML-related services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, SageMaker) is a plus.
- Domain Knowledge: Solid understanding of Observability, DevSecOps, and basic FinOps (cloud cost estimation) practices.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Candidates must demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills, taking full ownership of tasks and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
π Benefits
- Remote work available (Spain, Ukraine, Portugal, Poland).
- Competitive salary (Poland: 17,400 PLN to 26,000 PLN monthly gross).
- Healthcare coverage via LuxMed (individual or family plan).
- UNUM life insurance (individual or family plan).
- Multisport Card for fitness and wellness (individual or family plan).
- Onboarding allowance for necessary work equipment and setup.
- Six self-care days beyond standard Polish vacation entitlements.
- Wellness, learning and development budgets.
- Employees may be able to purchase company stock or receive annual bonuses.