Search Atlas

Senior DevOps Engineer

Search Atlas

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇳🇬 Nigeria

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Salary

💰 $4,000 - $5,000 per month

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresTerraformVault

About the role

  • Manage and scale GKE clusters for microservices, focusing on resilience, cost, and performance
  • Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and ArgoCD workflows for secure, automated deployments
  • Use Terraform to manage GCP infrastructure that's modular, scalable, and reproducible
  • Implement and extend OpenTelemetry for observability; maintain dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Datadog, and Sentry
  • Support PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse operations for performance and cost efficiency
  • Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and improve disaster recovery and high availability
  • Collaborate with backend, frontend, and QA teams to improve reliability, streamline deployments, and ensure platform stability

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles working in production environments.
  • Strong proficiency with Kubernetes (GKE preferred) and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
  • Deep knowledge of GCP infrastructure and Terraform-based IaC practices.
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and instrumentation.
  • Expertise in Grafana, Datadog, and Sentry for observability and monitoring.
  • Operational knowledge of PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and experience with incident resolution in production systems.
  • Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
  • Nice to Have
  • Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or OPA/Gatekeeper.
  • Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies on GCP.
  • Knowledge of secret management tools like Vault or GCP Secret Manager.
  • Experience implementing blue-green or canary deployments.
Benefits
  • 15 Days Paid Time Off + Christmas Day + New Year's Day Paid Off

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
KubernetesGKEGitOpsArgoCDTerraformOpenTelemetryGrafanaDatadogSentryPostgreSQL
Soft skills
troubleshootingincident resolutioneffective communicationcollaboration