Senior DevOps Engineer

Dwarf Engineering is a Ukrainian product & engineering company shaping the future of DefenseTech.

We create game-changing tech solutions that ease the work and save the lives of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, giving them the advantage they need.

Our mission is to make advanced defense technologies accessible and to deliver them faster where they matter most.

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to own and optimize our cloud platform. You’ll manage GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure.

Work Experience:

• 3–5 years in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE);
• Proven experience managing Cloud Platforms in production (Kubernetes clusters, Cloud Services/Functions);
• Background in mid-size engineering teams, collaborating with developers and QA;
• Familiarity with external logging and metrics systems;

• Knowledge of modern release practices (semantic versioning, blue-green, canary deployments).

   

Technical Skills:

• Experience with GCP/AWS (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, networking, storage, cost optimization);
• Strong knowledge of GitLab (or similar) for pipelines, automated build/test/deploy, and release management;
• Skilled in deploying and managing workloads, Helm charts, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting clusters;
• Hands-on with Terraform or equivalent tools for automated environment provisioning;
• Container security, secret management, access controls, backup & disaster recovery;

• Experience with tools like DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix, ELK.

   

Nice to have: 
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• Scripting (Python/Bash) for automation;
• Knowledge of modern release strategies (semantic versioning, blue-green, canary deployments);
• SQL scripting (PostgreSQL).

Responsibilities:
 

• Manage and optimize Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure;
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines/builds/agents (GitLab);
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices with Terraform;
• Ensure observability through monitoring and logging solutions;
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enable fast and reliable releases;
• Enhance security across infrastructure and deployments.

What we offer:

• Official employment and financial stability: we guarantee timely salary payments and official employment;
• Comfort and care for you: enjoy a comfortable office, full technical setup including height-adjustable desks, and free lunches provided by the company;
• Flexibility and safety: we offer a flexible work schedule and reserved parking for all employees.

Join us if you want your work to have a real impact!