6 days ago
Slovakia (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain GitOps-based delivery pipelines using ArgoCD.
- Design self-service tooling, golden paths, deployment templates, and scaffolding for product teams.
- Implement deployment safety guardrails including configuration diffing, change ownership, rollout strategies, and audit trails.
- Build platforms, pipelines, and operational guardrails that enable product teams to deploy independently.
- Use AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, automation, and operational delivery.
- Mentor and develop engineers and conduct technical interviews.
- Contribute to the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the cloud platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
- Production-grade Kubernetes experience, including EKS or GKE, GitOps, service mesh, multi-tenant cluster operations, and resource management.
- Hands-on experience with GitOps and CI/CD, including ArgoCD or Flux, Kustomize or Helm, rollout strategies, deployment safety, change ownership, and audit trails.
- Deep AWS platform experience with EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM/IRSA, VPC networking, RDS, and cost optimization.
- A platform engineering orientation focused on self-service platforms rather than one-off scripts or manual runbooks.
- Fluency with AI tools for development and operations.
- Ability to own outcomes end-to-end and translate infrastructure complexity into business impact.
- People leadership skills, including mentoring, engineer development, and technical interviewing.
- Desirable experience with GCP, GKE, GCS, Cloud Run, or hybrid multi-cloud operations.
- Desirable experience with HLS, RTMP, CDN optimization, live video pipelines, FinOps, cost attribution, right-sizing, storage lifecycle policies, Python, Go, or Node.js.
Benefits
- Hybrid office and remote work flexibility in Slovakia.
- Internal meetups, conferences, workshops, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
- Collaboration with international, cross-functional teams and exposure to large-scale global initiatives.
- Friendly, open-door culture with a strong professional community.
- Extensive benefits aligned with market standards.
- Full-time employment; salary starts at 3400 Eur gross.
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About Ciklum
Ciklum is an IT services firm that builds custom digital products and provides nearshore engineering teams, QA, DevOps, data analytics, and UX for enterprises and high-growth startups. It operates a services model spanning product engineering, e-commerce solutions, and managed delivery centers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global clients including Just Eat and Zurich Insurance.