DevOps Engineer

Skylum allows millions of photographers to make incredible images faster. Our award-winning software automates photo editing with the power of AI yet leaves all the creative control in the hands of the artist.
Join us on our mission to make photo editing enjoyable, easy, and accessible to anyone. You’ll be developing products with innovative technologies, providing value and inspiration for customers, and getting inspired in return.
 

Thanks to our incredible team of experts, we’ve built a collaborative space where you can constantly develop and grow in a supportive way. At the same time, we believe in the freedom to be creative. Our work schedule is flexible, and we trust you to give your best while we provide you with everything you need to make work hassle-free. Skylum is proud to be a Ukrainian company, and we stand with Ukraine not only with words but with actions. We regularly donate to various organizations to help speed up the Ukrainian victory.

This role will focus on developing secure, scalable infrastructure and automating processes to ensure high availability within our AWS environments.

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Management — Extensive experience with AWS is required (ECS Fargate, EC2, ALB, Lambda, ECR, RDS, VPC networking, IAM, S3).
• Security & Networking — Ensure secure networking practices, VPN configurations, firewall rules, and cloud security policies.
• Zero-Downtime Deployment — Knowledge of blue-green deployments, canary releases, and microservices architecture is beneficial.

Requirements:

• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform 3+ years
• 5+ years of production hands-on experience best practices in AWS DevOps roles.
• Management and support of container orchestrations (AWS, ECS, Fargate).
• Experience with containerization systems (Docker).
• Experience with monitoring and observability frameworks (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Advanced scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation and configuration management.
• Experience with CDN technologies, preferably CloudFlare, to manage global content delivery and security features (CDN, WAF, DDoS Protection).
• AWS Certified (AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer)
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD

What we offer:

For personal growth:

• A chance to work with a strong team and a unique opportunity to make substantial contributions to our award-winning photo editing tools;
• An educational allowance to ensure that your skills stay sharp;
• English and German classes to strengthen your capabilities and widen your knowledge.

For comfort:

• A great environment where you’ll work with true professionals and amazing colleagues whom you’ll call friends quickly;
• The choice of working remotely or in our office space located on Podil, equipped with everything you might need for productive and comfortable work.

For health:

• Medical insurance;
• Twenty-one days of paid sick leave per year;
• Healthy fruit snacks full of vitamins to keep you energized.

For leisure:

• Twenty-one days of paid vacation per year;
• Fun times at our frequent team-building activities.