Senior DevOps Engineer (вакансія неактивна)

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support a SaaS/PaaS product delivered to customers with different infrastructure setups. The role focuses on stabilizing and automating environments for development and QA, improving CI/CD, and reducing delivery delays caused by environment unavailability and manual deployment steps. In addition to the project work, you will contribute to company-wide infrastructure practices, security hardening, and compliance readiness.

About the project: a platform that collects data from smart metering devices, aggregates and cleans it, and produces reporting. Deployments vary by customer and may include Kubernetes-based setups and RPM-based deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab (build/test/package/deploy), including runners, artifacts, permissions, and governance.
• Own Kubernetes delivery workflows: Helm/manifests, GitOps (FluxCD preferred), release strategies, rollback procedures.
• Set up, stabilize, and continuously improve test/staging environments used by developers and QA; reduce environment-related delivery delays.
• Troubleshoot complex deployment and environment issues (pipelines, cluster/app configuration, networking, access constraints).
• Coordinate deployments and access-dependent tasks with client-side/system engineers when direct admin access is limited.
• Create and maintain environment setup and operational runbooks (deployments, rollbacks, debugging, access requirements) to a production-grade standard.
• Drive automation-first delivery: build and maintain automation flows for provisioning, deployments, and operational tasks across client projects.
• Contribute to company initiatives: infra standardization, security hardening, secrets management, access controls, logging/monitoring baselines.
• Lead by influence: define DevOps standards, mentor engineers, and be ready to lead/scale DevOps practices and teams.
• Build and support MLOps capabilities: delivery and operations for ML/LLM-based services (model serving, pipelines, observability, governance).

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform engineering with hands-on production infrastructure delivery.
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience (deployments, debugging, cluster operations, networking fundamentals, reliability practices).
• Strong GitLab CI/CD experience (pipelines, runners, artifact management, approvals, RBAC/permissions).
• Hands-on with Helm and Kubernetes manifests; ability to design reusable deployment patterns across multiple environments/customers.
• GitOps experience (FluxCD preferred); ability to implement safe promotion/release processes.
• Strong cloud experience in AWS and/or Azure; ability to design cloud-agnostic architectures when required.
• Solid Linux knowledge; familiarity with Java service runtime/deployment basics.
• Strong automation skills and tooling knowledge (IaC + workflow automation); willingness to build repeatable delivery flows across domains (fintech, healthcare, construction, machinery, legal).
• Proven infrastructure security hardening experience (IAM, secrets, least privilege, vulnerability management, baseline controls).
• Strong compliance knowledge and practical experience implementing and documenting compliant infrastructure:
  
  
  • SOC 2 controls and audit evidence collection;
  • GDPR / CCPA privacy-aligned infrastructure practices;
  • HIPAA-aligned safeguards (where applicable);
  • Penetration test preparation and remediation.

• Strong ownership, ability to prioritize, and ability to work cross-functionally with developers and QA.
• Upper-Intermediate or higher English level.
• Flexibility to travel internationally for client meetings, as needed.

Nice to have

• Hands-on MLOps: model serving, training/inference pipelines, experiment tracking, model registry, LLM deployment patterns, monitoring/drift concepts.
• Experience with RPM packaging and Linux-based installers.
• Keycloak and OAuth2/SSO operational experience.
• Experience supporting mixed integration landscapes (REST/SOAP/Kafka/FTP/RPC).
• Familiarity with Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL operationally.
• Track record of passing external audits end-to-end (SOC 2 / ISO-related / similar).

We offer

• Competitive compensation based on your skills, experience, and performance.
• 20 working days of annual paid vacation and 5 days of sick leave.
• 3 additional days off for special occasions.
• Experienced colleagues with 95% of middle and senior engineers.
• Possibility to work from anywhere in the world.
• Exciting projects involving the newest technologies.
• Accounting as a service.
• Flexible working approach.