A fast-growing Ukrainian e-commerce company is working in partnership with GRS Recruitment to hire an experienced and highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join their team on a fully remote basis. This role is open exclusively to candidates residing in Cyprus and offers the opportunity to take ownership of their on-premises infrastructure while contributing to the design and evolution of a modern, production-grade Kubernetes platform. If you’re passionate about automation, reliability, and building scalable systems from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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On-premises infrastructure ownership: Together with company DevOps team design, deploy, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare metal infrastructure for greenfield microservices platform manage capacity planning, scaling strategies, and infrastructure lifecycle.
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Observability and reliability: Build comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting infrastructure using Grafana Stack and VictoriaMetrics; implement distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry;
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GitOps and automation: Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD/Flux for declarative infrastructure and application deployments; manage infrastructure as code with Terraform; build robust CI/CD pipelines in GitLab; automate repetitive operational tasks and establish self-service capabilities for developers.
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Security and operational excellence: Implement and maintain security controls for Kubernetes clusters; manage secrets, certificates, and access policies; conduct infrastructure audits; optimize system performance and resource utilization; participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure incidents.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
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5+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE roles managing production systems
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Strong Kubernetes experience: cluster administration, deployment strategies, troubleshooting, and security hardening
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Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for on-premises infrastructure provisioning
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Practical experience with GitOps methodology and tools (ArgoCD or Flux) for continuous delivery
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Proficiency with observability stack: Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and VictoriaMetrics for metrics, logs, and traces
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Deep understanding of containerization with Docker and Helm charts
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Networking expertise: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, ingress controllers, network policies
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Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred) and automation workflows
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Native Ukrainian speaker
Nice to have:
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Experience with service mesh implementations (Istio, Linkerd) in production environments
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Knowledge of message brokers (Kafka, NATS) deployment and operations
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Experience managing stateful applications in Kubernetes (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
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Familiarity with secrets management solutions (Vault, External Secrets Operator, Sealed Secrets)
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Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
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Understanding of disaster recovery and backup strategies for on-premises infrastructure
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Experience with multi-tenant Kubernetes architectures
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Understanding of security best practices for Kubernetes and infrastructure
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive at GRS Recruitment, only shortlisted candidates will be responded to.
To apply for this position, please email your CV to
Ioulia Ananikidou, ioulia@grsrecruitment.com quoting the above job reference or call +357 25 342 729 for further information.