Join a fast-growing Ukrainian e-commerce company as a DevOps Engineer to design and evolve a modern, production-grade Kubernetes platform. Take ownership of on-premises infrastructure and contribute to building scalable systems. 5+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE roles required.
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Benefits & Perks
Job Description
A fast-growing Ukrainian e-commerce company is working in partnership with GRS Recruitment to hire an experienced and highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join their team on a fully remote basis. This role is open exclusively to candidates residing in Cyprus and offers the opportunity to take ownership of their on-premises infrastructure while contributing to the design and evolution of a modern, production-grade Kubernetes platform. If you’re passionate about automation, reliability, and building scalable systems from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- On-premises infrastructure ownership: Together with company DevOps team design, deploy, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare metal infrastructure for greenfield microservices platform manage capacity planning, scaling strategies, and infrastructure lifecycle.
- Observability and reliability: Build comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting infrastructure using Grafana Stack and VictoriaMetrics; implement distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry;
- GitOps and automation: Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD/Flux for declarative infrastructure and application deployments; manage infrastructure as code with Terraform; build robust CI/CD pipelines in GitLab; automate repetitive operational tasks and establish self-service capabilities for developers.
- Security and operational excellence: Implement and maintain security controls for Kubernetes clusters; manage secrets, certificates, and access policies; conduct infrastructure audits; optimize system performance and resource utilization; participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure incidents.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE roles managing production systems
- Strong Kubernetes experience: cluster administration, deployment strategies, troubleshooting, and security hardening
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for on-premises infrastructure provisioning
- Practical experience with GitOps methodology and tools (ArgoCD or Flux) for continuous delivery
- Proficiency with observability stack: Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and VictoriaMetrics for metrics, logs, and traces
- Deep understanding of containerization with Docker and Helm charts
- Networking expertise: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, ingress controllers, network policies
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred) and automation workflows
- Native Ukrainian speaker
Nice to have:
- Experience with service mesh implementations (Istio, Linkerd) in production environments
- Knowledge of message brokers (Kafka, NATS) deployment and operations
- Experience managing stateful applications in Kubernetes (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Familiarity with secrets management solutions (Vault, External Secrets Operator, Sealed Secrets)
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
- Understanding of disaster recovery and backup strategies for on-premises infrastructure
- Experience with multi-tenant Kubernetes architectures
- Understanding of security best practices for Kubernetes and infrastructure