Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure Cloud)

Our family-style company is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to build a new greenfield cloud platform from the ground up. You’ll design, implement, and operate a production-grade environment that supports multiple teams and environments across the full delivery lifecycle. This role is about ownership, autonomy, and building a reliable foundation with long-term impact.

About the Role
Our client, based in Munich, Germany, is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the architecture and implementation of a robust Azure Kubernetes (AKS) platform supporting multiple environments across the full software delivery lifecycle.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with high autonomy and direct impact. You will take responsibility for building and evolving the platform using Infrastructure as Code, establishing GitOps-driven workflows, and embedding security best practices into every layer of the system. Success in this role means delivering a resilient, production-grade platform that balances speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement a multi-environment AKS platform on Azure with supporting infrastructure using Terraform
• Define and enforce infrastructure patterns, module structure, and deployment pipelines
• Set up and operate GitOps-based delivery workflows (Argo CD)
• Integrate observability tooling (Datadog) for metrics, logs, and traces
• Implement security best practices: RBAC, network policies, secrets management, supply chain security
• Manage Kubernetes cluster operations: upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting, hardening
• Collaborate with development teams to enable self-service platform capabilities.

What We’re Looking For (Must Have):

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (module design, state management, CI/CD for infrastructure)
• Production experience operating Kubernetes (AKS preferred; EKS/GKE acceptable if Azure fundamentals are solid)
• Solid understanding of Azure cloud services (networking, identity, compute, storage)
• Experience with GitOps tooling (Argo CD or Flux)
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes networking, RBAC, and security hardening
• Experience with observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Comfortable working with Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure and configuration.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Terragrunt, Spacelift, or similar Terraform workflow tooling
• Familiarity with Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and its Kubernetes integration
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium)
• Knowledge of policy-as-code frameworks (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
• Experience with container image security (including signing, scanning, and admission control) is important. A background in internal developer platforms and familiarity with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 in cloud-native environments would be a strong plus.

What We Are Looking For in a Candidate
Beyond technical skills, we value:

• Architectural thinking - ability to make and justify design decisions with trade-offs in mind
• Security-first mindset - defaults to secure; thinks about attack surfaces and least privilege naturally
• Pragmatism - builds what's needed, avoids over-engineering, focuses on maintainability
• Clear communication - can explain complex infrastructure concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ownership - takes responsibility for the platform end-to-end, from design through operations.

Our hiring process includes the following steps:

1. An initial introduction call with our recruiter team
2. A practical test task (take-home, ~4 hours) - candidates design a conceptual AKS platform architecture. No working code required; focus is on approach and thought process
3. An interview with our C-level team
4. A final technical interview with our client (~60-90 min) - discussion of the design task, deep-dive into past experience, and scenario-based questions
5. Job offer.

What we offer:

• A really promising long-lasting project (you will be proud of yourself)
• Sane and polite, but effective management
• The best corporate culture (according to our teammates' opinions)
• Competitive salary and other stuff
• Remote work, full time
• Becoming not just another team member, but a part of UKAD with unique value and long-term relationships.

Some facts about UKAD to help you make a decision:
During 2022-2025, we only increased cooperation with our foreign partners
UKAD combines benefits of family-sized companies, like no bureaucracy, easy access to the executives, with sustainable growth and vast opportunities
Our company is strong enough to be not just a vendor but a tech partner. We can afford to choose customers that respect developers
UKAD is one of the leading employers in Kharkiv, according to DOU.

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