Senior DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of one of our essential platform areas from start to finish: observability (including VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Graylog / VictoriaLogs, fluent bit, exporters, and alerting) or CI/CD (covering Jenkins scripted pipelines, Harbor, Nexus, and build agents) — you will influence its architecture, reliability, and roadmap.

• Lead technical projects from inception to completion: gather requirements, draft design documentation, break down tasks, implement solutions, deliver to production, and ensure operational health thereafter.

• Establish clarity in uncertain circumstances by specifying requirements, assumptions, and subsequent actions.

• Design for robustness and scalability: enhance the architecture of our platforms — including topology, integration points, scaling methods, and reliability models.

• Support developers by deploying and monitoring applications on both on-premise servers and Kubernetes (using Helm), troubleshooting builds and deployments, assisting teams with metrics, alerts, and logs; participate in chat duty in developer support channels.

• Eliminate repetitive tasks: operations, provisioning, and maintenance should be automated rather than performed manually.

• Investigate production incidents as the senior escalation point for your domain: drive resolutions, lead post-mortems, and implement systemic improvements. Participate in on-call rotations and enhance the on-call process.

• Guide less experienced engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and collaborative sessions; identify debt-inducing shortcuts during the review process.

• Leverage AI in all facets of daily work: for research, troubleshooting, and development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer / SRE (or closely related roles).

• Proven history of managing technical initiatives from beginning to end — from gathering requirements and designing solutions to delivering them in production. You should be able to present initiatives that you led, rather than just tasks you completed.

• Strong Linux skills (we primarily use Ubuntu).

• Familiarity with the Prometheus stack: understanding of metric types, exporters, and alerting mechanisms — sufficient to navigate and enhance an existing setup.

• Practical experience with CI/CD: designing pipelines, orchestrating builds, and delivering artifacts.

• Proficiency with containers: Docker, image creation, and registries.

• Experience with Ansible.

• Proficient in Git.

• Background in Bash or Python scripting for automation and observability (including writing exporters and reducing routine tasks).

• Experience in production/on-call roles: diagnosing incidents, restoring services, and leading post-mortem analyses.

• Experience mentoring junior engineers.

• A strong sense of ownership and meticulous attention to detail. Downtime can be costly: during peak events, just 10 minutes of downtime may result in losses of around $500k.

🏝️ Benefits

• 31 days of paid time off.

• Fully covered telemedicine plan.

• Home Office Setup Assistance: the company provides support for purchasing furniture (office chair, desk, monitor) and other items to establish a comfortable workspace.

• English language courses.

• Opportunities for relevant professional education.

• Access to a gym or swimming pool.

• Co-working space availability.

• Option for remote work.