DevOps Engineer, Fluent Ukrainian

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for web products, websites, and the company’s internal services using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.

• Facilitate the gradual migration of deployment processes from Jenkins to GitLab CI.

• Ensure stable, repeatable, and predictable deployments with rollback mechanisms and minimal manual steps.

• Configure and maintain Docker-based runtime environments for web applications and services.

• Standardize Docker, docker-compose, deployment scripts, and runtime configurations to minimize the need for regular rework.

• Administer Linux servers in a production environment: setup, patch management, troubleshooting, performance analysis.

• Automate infrastructure setup, configuration management, and maintenance processes using Ansible and Bash.

• Support web infrastructure: Nginx, SSL/TLS, reverse proxy, routing, Cloudflare, DNS, caching, and basic security rules.

• Configure, maintain, and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting for production systems.

• Analyze deployment failures and production incidents, identify root causes, and propose preventive measures.

• Maintain backup/restore, monitoring, and basic troubleshooting for MySQL/PostgreSQL.

• Ensure the reliability and stability of production systems.

• Analyze production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.

• Participate in post-incident reviews and prepare technical summaries following incidents.

• Implement and uphold security practices for Linux and web infrastructure: hardening, access control, updates, and vulnerability mitigation.

• Document infrastructure solutions, deployment workflows, configurations, and significant changes.

• Coordinate production changes with the team, communicate risks, and avoid critical changes without transparent communication.

• Proactively identify weaknesses in deployment, infrastructure, and application architecture that could lead to instability and initiate corrective action.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in administering Linux servers in a production environment (systemd, networking, firewall, SSH, logging, storage, processes, performance troubleshooting).

• Strong understanding of networking technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, WebSockets, reverse proxy, routing, network troubleshooting).

• Practical experience with Docker and docker-compose (runtime environments, networking, volumes, debugging, optimization).

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD), including automated deployment, rollback, and minimizing downtime.

• Experience in automating infrastructure and configurations (Ansible).

• Experience working with Nginx (reverse proxy, SSL, routing, deploying web applications).

• Understanding of SRE principles: reliability, observability, incident response, root cause analysis.

• Experience with monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Promtail, Sentry, or similar) and developing alerting strategies.

• Basic to intermediate experience in administering MySQL/PostgreSQL (backup/restore, monitoring, troubleshooting).

• Understanding of Linux and web infrastructure security best practices (hardening, access control, SSL/TLS, patching, vulnerability handling).

• Strong troubleshooting skills: problem localization, root cause analysis, preventive measures.

• Independence and ownership in managing infrastructure tasks end-to-end.

• Intermediate (B1) English language proficiency or higher.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unique art spaces in Kyiv near Vasylkivska metro station (experience the atmosphere! https://officesnapshots.com/2021/04/28/supportyourapp-offices-kyiv/) or the option to work remotely.

• Communication based on trust, with no activity trackers.

• Balance between project load and personal time, along with an internal medical policy.

• A creative community and culture focused on people and mutual feedback.

• Attractive rewards for referring friends.

• Competitive compensation in USD.

• Paid onboarding and access to a corporate library.