Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VeliTech is a technology product company seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support reliable, available, and high-performing production infrastructure. The role focuses on cloud and Kubernetes administration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and infrastructure optimization.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of production infrastructure
- Monitor cloud infrastructure and proactively identify potential issues before they impact customers
- Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement long-term preventive solutions
- Automate operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and scripting
- Manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure (ECS Fargate) and Kubernetes (EKS) clusters
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
- Improve observability by developing monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards
- Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations
- Continuously optimize infrastructure costs, security, and operational efficiency
Skills
- 3+ years of experience as a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, Route53, EKS, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Solid experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Strong hands-on experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation
- Experience administering Kubernetes clusters (preferably Amazon EKS) and ECS Fargate
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with Docker and containerized applications
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, CloudWatch)
- Experience with CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Good understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Load Balancers, Routing, Firewalls)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience troubleshooting complex production incidents and performing root cause analysis (RCA)
- English level: Intermediate+ or higher
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault
- Experience with ArgoCD, FluxCD, or GitOps workflows
- Experience administering PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or Kafka
- Knowledge of SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management)
- Experience with Security best practices and compliance standards (ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks)
- Experience working in high-load, highly available production environments
- Experience with GCP or Hetzner
- AWS or Kubernetes certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA, CKAD)
Benefits
- Real mentorship, a clear career path, and support to lead your product.
- Health support options vary based on your location.
- Remote, Kyiv, Tbilisi, Manila, London — or mix it up.
- Paid vacation and public holidays.
- Share your story and grow your voice — inside and out.
- Team offsites and community events.
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