Senior DevOps Engineer - Platform

Strong Kubernetes experience, including tuning and troubleshooting on-prem Linux systems under real load

Hands-on CI/CD background — GitLab CI specifically is a plus

GitOps in practice, ideally with ArgoCD

Software development skills in Python, Golang or Rust — enough to build and maintain the tooling around your infrastructure, not just configure it

Configuration management experience with Ansible and/or Terraform

A security mindset grounded in DevSecOps practices — supply chain security experience is a genuine advantage here

The communication skills to work effectively across teams and document your work clearly

Beyond the technical side, we care about how you work with people. The team is small, distributed, and collaborative by habit — we're looking for someone who shares knowledge freely, lifts those around them, and doesn't treat collaboration as an afterthought.

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