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Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, build, and operate a cloud-native platform using Kubernetes, GitOps, and various data and messaging technologies. The role focuses on platform reliability, CI/CD automation, and mentoring junior team members.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern cloud-native platform that supports mission-critical applications and data services. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes-based infrastructure, GitOps practices, CI/CD automation, database administration, observability, and platform security.

You will play a key role in driving platform reliability, scalability, and developer productivity while mentoring junior engineers and adopting open-source technologies to enhance our engineering ecosystem.

Technology Stack (Key Technologies)\:

Container Orchestration\: Kubernetes, Docker

GitOps & CI/CD\: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Helm

API Gateway & Ingress\: Kong Gateway, Traefik

Monitoring & Observability\: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki

Databases\: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Neo4j, Redis, ClickHouse, Qdrant

Streaming & Messaging\: Apache Kafka (Strimzi)

Data Platform\: Apache Airflow, Trino, Hive Metastore, OpenMetadata, MinIO (S3)

Security\: HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao

Configuration Management\: Ansible

Key Responsibilities\:

  • Design and manage advanced CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD GitOps).

  • Deploy and operate highly available PostgreSQL & MySQL clusters.
  • Manage Kong API Gateway and optimize Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Operate and enhance monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) and ensure security compliance.
  • Manage Kafka clusters, perform capacity planning, and participate in incident response.
  • Mentor junior engineers and deploy new open-source platforms end-to-end.

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