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DevOps Engineer Senior

Summary

The DevOps Engineer Senior at Mikroways is a technical leader within thedelivery team. They design, implement, and maintain complex infrastructures,participate in strategic decisions, and promote best practices and continuousimprovement. They also contribute to the training of more junior team members,optimize processes and costs, and actively participate in defining robust andscalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes infrastructures (EKS, OKD,ClusterAPI, k3s).
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Automate on-premise infrastructure (Proxmox, VMware) and public cloudinfrastructure (AWS).
• Develop and maintain Terraform and Terragrunt modules.
• Implement federated authentication (OIDC, SAML).
• Manage multi-account environments in AWS with Control Tower.
• Advanced AWS networking: Transit Gateway, VPNs, BGP, hybrid connectivity.
• Automate with Ansible (roles, playbooks).
• Integrate policy as code and service mesh tools.
• Apply observability using the Grafana stack.
• Analyze costs and optimize environments, maximizing productivity at the lowestcost.
• Lead the design, evaluation, and validation of on-premise and cloudinfrastructure architectures.
• Coordinate and participate in troubleshooting and resolving complex issues inproduction environments.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to resolve incidents anddrive improvements.
• Transfer knowledge and promote team professional development.
• Understand customer business needs and ensure technical solutions align withtheir goals.

Personal aptitudes

• Complex problem-solving: identify root causes, analyze alternatives, andimplement effective solutions.
• Technical leadership and positive influence: act as a technical reference,guiding and empowering others.
• Proactivity: generate, propose, and implement ideas and solutionsindependently.
• Strong communication skills: essential for effective interaction withcustomers and team members, both verbal and written.
• Teamwork: we foster collaboration to enhance everyone’s skills andknowledge.
• Autonomy and organization: high responsibility is expected for projectmanagement and meeting commitments.
• Working under pressure: although we promote best practices to avoidincidents, being able to remain calm and efficient in critical situations isessential.
• Continuous improvement mindset: openness to learning new technologies andconstant search for optimization.
• Commitment to quality and resource optimization: focus on efficient,sustainable, high-value solutions for customers.

Professional knowledge

Mandatory

• Solid experience with Kubernetes (declarative and imperative management, helm,ArgoCD, CRDs, troubleshooting, kind, minikube).
• Proficiency with Terraform on AWS.
• Infrastructure automation with Ansible.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
• On-premise virtualization (Proxmox and/or VMware).
• Linux, scripting, and troubleshooting.
• Networking: subnets, routing, firewalls, VPNs, VLANs, overlay networks.
• Modern software architectures (SOA, microservices, SPA).
• Authentication and authorization (OAuth, OIDC).
• Cloud security: WAF and API Gateway.
• Experience working in production and critical environments.
• Ability to work independently and mentor team members.
• AWS Architect or SysOps/DevOps certifications (or commitment to obtain themwithin the first two months).

Nice to Have

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Experience with advanced observability.
• Knowledge of security and compliance policies.