DevOps Engineer to $3500

Summary / Objective:

Klickly is seeking a motivated DevOps Engineer at Middle or Junior+ level to join our infrastructure team. This role will be responsible for supporting development teams with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud services, and monitoring. The ideal candidate will work with AWS (EKS, RDS, ElastiCache), container orchestration, Kafka clusters, and infrastructure as code. 1–3 years of DevOps/SRE experience and a passion for automation and reliability are essential. Experience with high-traffic distributed systems and event-driven architecture is a plus.

Desired experience and skills:

- 1–3 years of DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience

- Linux administration and shell scripting (Bash)

- Container concepts: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes (deployments, services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress)

- AWS Services: EKS (Kubernetes), ECR, RDS (PostgreSQL), ElastiCache (Redis), S3, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, ACM, Secrets Manager / Parameter Store

- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD (GitOps)

- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (basic to intermediate)

- Database configuration: PostgreSQL, Redis; familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL

- Kafka: cluster setup, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, KSQL (basic understanding)

- Source control: Git, branching strategies

- Monitoring & observability: Prometheus, Grafana (basic setup and dashboards)
 

Will be a plus:

- Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments

- Strimzi (Kafka operator for Kubernetes)

- Karpenter (node autoscaling for EKS)

- External Secrets Operator

- Jenkins (legacy CI/CD)

- ElasticSearch / OpenSearch for log aggregation

- Cost optimization and EKS scalability

- ETL pipelines, Snowflake integration

- Scripting: Python for automation

Key responsibilities:

- Support DevOps needs of development teams (CI/CD, deployments, environments)

- Identify and address infrastructure issues and security vulnerabilities

- Develop and maintain ETL procedures and data pipelines

- Implement DevOps best practices and standards

- Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response

Soft skills:

- Strong troubleshooting, problem solving and analytical skills

- Self-driven and proactive with the ability to work both independently & in groups

- Ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities

- Organized with attention to detail and a methodical working style

- Good oral and written communication skills (English B2+ for remote collaboration)

- High levels of integrity and ability to follow strict confidentiality guidelines

- A positive attitude and eagerness to learn
 

Other details:

- Competitive compensation in USD, commensurate with experience

- Unlimited PTO + company holidays

- Involvement in building projects from inception using cutting-edge technologies

- Opportunities for personal and professional development