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Senior DevOps Engineer

Spotware Systems is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in supporting Java-based product environments.

This role is ideal for someone who blends deep infrastructure knowledge with automation expertise, has a solid understanding of modern DevOps practices, and thrives in complex, distributed systems.

You will be instrumental in ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across our production environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployments with Ansible.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, including CNIs, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Deploy and manage services using Helm and helmfile.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, ELK).
• Set up distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry.
• Profile applications and systems using tools like perf, pprof, and Java heap dump analyzers.
• Ensure security best practices across CI/CD, secrets management (Vault, Sealed Secrets), and static code analysis (SonarQube).
• Optimize containerization workflows, focusing on image layering, distroless builds, and runtime management (containerd, CRI-O).
• Manage networking in Kubernetes: Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, DNS, and external load balancer integrations.
• Troubleshoot complex networking issues using tcpdump, traceroute, netstat, and other diagnostic tools.
• Develop and maintain scripts and tools in Go, Python, Bash, and Groovy.
• Support and optimize Java-based microservices in production.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles.
• Proven expertise with Helm, helmfile, and Ansible in production.
• Strong background supporting Java-based microservices.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI and Jenkins pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (core components, CNIs, networking).
• Strong understanding of Linux systems in production.
• Experience with monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, VictoriaMetrics.
• Familiarity with distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with secrets management (Vault, Sealed Secrets).
• Strong troubleshooting skills with networking (TCP/UDP, DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers).
• Competency in Go, Python, and Bash scripting.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and the CAP theorem.
• Proven ability to support incident response and on-call rotations.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Familiarity with Service Meshes (Istio, Linkerd).
• Knowledge of advanced networking (eBPF, Calico, Cilium, IPVS).
• Experience with profiling tools and JVM troubleshooting (Eclipse MAT, jmap).
• Exposure to CI/CD security best practices and static analysis tools like SonarQube.

Conditions

• Competitive remuneration.
• Private medical insurance.
• Relocation package (if applicable), including work permit arrangements.
• Welcome baby bonus.
• Birthday voucher.
• Fully equipped office with daily fruits, breakfast on Wednesdays, pizzas on Thursdays and snacks on Fridays.
• Opportunities for professional growth.

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