Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fundraise Up is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own a core platform area—observability or CI/CD—from architecture and delivery through ongoing operations. The role supports engineering teams with reliable platforms, production incident response, automation, and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Own one of our core platform areas end-to-end: observability (VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Graylog / VictoriaLogs, fluent bit, exporters, alerting) or CI/CD (Jenkins scripted pipelines, Harbor, Nexus, build agents) — you drive its architecture, reliability, and roadmap
- Drive technical initiatives end-to-end: gather requirements, write the design doc, decompose into tasks, implement, deliver to production, and own the operational health afterwards
- Drive clarity in ambiguous situations by defining requirements, assumptions, and next steps
- Design for reliability and scale: evolve the architecture of our platforms — topology, integration points, scaling approach, and reliability model
- Support developers: deploy and monitor applications on both on-premise servers and Kubernetes (Helm), troubleshoot builds and deploys, help teams with metrics, alerts, and logs; participate in chat duty in developer support channels
- Automate away toil: repetitive operations, provisioning, and maintenance should be codified, not performed by hand
- Investigate production incidents as the senior escalation point for your area: drive resolution, lead post-mortems, implement systemic fixes. Participate in on-call rotations and raise the bar for how on-call works
- Mentor less experienced engineers through design discussions, reviews, and pairing; catch debt-inducing shortcuts at the review stage
- Use AI in all aspects of day-to-day work: researching, troubleshooting, developing
Skills
- 6+ years as a DevOps Engineer / SRE (or very close responsibilities)
- Track record of owning technical initiatives end-to-end — from requirements and technical design through production delivery
- Confident Linux skills (we use Ubuntu)
- Working knowledge of the Prometheus stack: metric types, exporters, and how alerting works — enough to navigate and extend an existing setup
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD: pipeline design, build orchestration, artifact delivery
- Containers: Docker, image building, registries
- Ansible
- Git
- Experience with Bash or Python scripting for automation and observability (writing exporters, eliminating routine work)
- Production/on-call experience: diagnosing incidents, restoring service, leading post-mortems
- Experience mentoring less experienced engineers
- Ownership and attention to detail
- Fluent Russian (required, as you'll be working in a Russian-speaking team)
- Solid hands-on experience in two or more of the areas below:
- VictoriaMetrics / Prometheus stack at scale: architecture, cardinality control, exporters, alerting infrastructure
- Log pipelines at scale: Graylog / VictoriaLogs / ELK — collection (fluent bit or similar), retention, sharding, performance
- Jenkins scripted pipelines: shared libraries, pipeline infrastructure, build agent fleets
- Container registries and artifact management: Harbor, Nexus, base images, image policies
- Operating applications on Kubernetes: Helm, workload monitoring and log delivery, deploy troubleshooting
- Grafana: dashboards as code, alerting, performance at scale
- Analytics & DS platforms: JupyterHub, Airflow, Tableau, MLflow, Airbyte — deployment, maintenance, resource limits
- Building platform around these tools to improve Quality of Life for Analytics
- Remote development environments and AI agent execution environments. E.g. Coder/Telepresence
- Bare-metal Kubernetes: provisioning, networking, scaling
- Flux and GitOps
- Terraform
- Sentry on-premise: operating self-hosted error tracking
- ClickHouse, MongoDB
Benefits
- 24 days of vacation, 18 public holidays, and sick leave in line with Georgian law.
- Private health insurance for you and your family.
- Mental health support with therapy sessions for you and your partner.
- Sports reimbursement to help you stay active and feel your best.
- Fully remote work.
- Generous home office stipend to set up a comfortable, productive workspace.
- Coworking reimbursement for days when you'd rather work alongside other people.
- Annual professional development stipend to support your growth.
- English learning programs to help you communicate with confidence across our global team.
- Charitable giving program with company matching for your donations to registered non-profits.
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