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Senior DevOps Engineer – ex-SysOps/SRE track

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AnsibleCloudElasticSearchFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKafkaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonRabbitMQRedisSQLTerraform

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP (VPC, GKE Autopilot/Standard, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, Cloud NAT, Cloud Armor, etc.)
  • Manage hybrid environments (remaining on-prem + GCP)
  • Deploy and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters (GKE + on-prem k8s)
  • Manage all infrastructure as code using Terraform (mandatory) + Helm + Kustomize
  • Configuration management with Ansible (existing playbooks) while evolving to more modern practices
  • Ensure high availability and disaster recovery for databases and queues (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Memorystore Redis, managed Kafka/RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch on GKE)
  • Build a modern observability stack: Prometheus + Grafana + Loki/Tempo + OpenTelemetry , integrated with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build)
  • Participate in security & compliance processes (IAM, KMS, Secret Manager, VPC Service Controls, Security Command Center, hardening)
  • Join the on-call rotation (we are building an SRE culture)
  • Mentor mid/junior engineers and participate in architecture reviews

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Linux system administration / DevOps / SRE experience
  • 3+ years of hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes (GKE is mandatory; CKA/CKAD/CKS certification is a big plus)
  • Strong proficiency in Terraform (complex modules, state management, remote backends, workspaces)
  • Solid experience writing and maintaining Ansible roles/collections
  • Strong scripting skills: Bash + Python 3 (mandatory)
  • In-depth networking knowledge (VPC, subnets, firewall rules, Cloud NAT, Cloud Armor, Private Service Connect, Hybrid Connectivity)
  • Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager + Cloud Operations Suite)
  • Understanding of GitOps practices (ArgoCD / Flux is a plus)
  • Proven experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI or Cloud Build
  • English — B2 or higher
Benefits
  • Stock options and long-term incentives
  • Clear and transparent career progression to Lead DevOps / SRE / Cloud Architect
  • Learning & certification budget (including GCP Professional certifications)
  • Modern toolchain and real influence on product architecture
  • Genuinely complex and interesting challenges in OSINT and AI
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Hard Skills & Tools
Linux system administrationDevOpsSREGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraformAnsibleBashPython 3networking
Soft Skills
mentoringarchitecture reviewson-call rotation
Certifications
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