Senior DevOps Engineer – GCP

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Cyprus, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Design and manage GoMining's cloud platform.

• Build and maintain infrastructure on GCP, which includes GKE, virtual machines, networking, load balancers, storage, and various managed services.

• Oversee Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, focusing on modules, state management, dependencies, reproducible changes, and configuration drift.

• Manage Kubernetes operations by upgrading clusters and platform components, setting up autoscaling, workload placement, network policies, and resource allocation.

• Create CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitLab CI and Flux / Argo CD to automate builds, validations, deployments, controlled releases, and rollbacks.

• Establish observability through metrics, logs, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting; collaborate with engineering teams to define and enhance SLIs/SLOs.

• Diagnose production incidents and performance challenges, perform root cause analyses, and mitigate recurring failure patterns.

• Enforce least-privilege access, ensure environment and service isolation, manage secret security and rotation, and implement infrastructure audit controls.

• Oversee backup processes and confirm the recovery of essential data and infrastructure in accordance with agreed RPO/RTO standards.

• Assist engineering teams in preparing services for production, including health checks, resource configurations, telemetry, and deployment protocols.

• Optimize cloud infrastructure usage and costs while upholding reliability standards.

• Maintain comprehensive infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, and recovery procedures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in independently managing production infrastructure and Kubernetes, including upgrades, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery.

• Strong expertise in GCP, encompassing GKE, Compute Engine, VPC, IAM, and Cloud Storage; solid understanding of Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.

• Practical experience with Terraform, including modules, remote state management, locking, importing existing resources, and safely applying infrastructure changes via CI.

• Profound knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization: Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, storage, requests/limits, probes, autoscaling, RBAC, and NetworkPolicy.

• Familiarity with Helm and Kustomize.

• Strong Linux administration capabilities, ideally with Debian/Ubuntu: processes, systemd, filesystems, disks, and resource troubleshooting.

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), TLS, routing, NAT, load balancing, and firewalls.

• Proficient in troubleshooting connectivity issues across applications, Kubernetes clusters, networks, and cloud services.

• Experience in constructing CI/CD pipelines, preferably utilizing GitLab CI, with a robust understanding of Git and GitOps principles.

• Knowledge of runner permissions, secrets protection, and production deployment controls.

• Automation skills in Bash and Python, focusing on maintainable infrastructure scripts and API integrations.

• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring.

• Practical experience with PostgreSQL operations and familiarity with Redis and RabbitMQ, covering availability, connections, replication or clustering, backup, and recovery.

• In-depth understanding of cloud security principles: least privilege, service accounts, Workload Identity, secrets management, network segmentation, and access auditing.

• Capability to independently implement infrastructure changes leading to validated production outcomes, articulate technical trade-offs, and collaborate effectively with Engineering and Security teams.

• Nice to Have: Familiarity with Flux CD, Argo CD, Ansible, and HashiCorp Vault.

• Nice to Have: Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.

• Nice to Have: Experience in migrating infrastructure between clouds or Kubernetes clusters, including database migrations with minimal downtime.

• Nice to Have: Skills in designing disaster recovery strategies and conducting recovery exercises.

• Nice to Have: Background in cloud cost optimization and capacity planning.

• Nice to Have: Experience with DigitalOcean, Hetzner, or AWS.

• Nice to Have: Ability to read and troubleshoot JavaScript / TypeScript applications.

• Nice to Have: Experience with operating financial or payment services that require strict access control, auditing, reliability, and data integrity standards.

🏝️ Benefits

• Professional development opportunities: support for courses, conferences, and English learning (up to 100% coverage).

• Work-life balance: remote or hybrid work options with flexible hours across international teams.

• Paid time off: up to 20 vacation days, plus 8 company holidays and 5 personal days each year.

• Recognition programs: structured performance reviews and team awards.

• Team culture: retreats in international locations (such as company apartments in Cyprus).