Middle/Senior DevOps Engineer

At A-Players, we are looking for a Middle/Senior DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team and become a strong partner for our engineering and product teams.

This is not a role for someone who wants to only maintain what already exists. We are looking for a hands-on engineer who takes ownership of the infrastructure, drives automation, and helps development teams ship faster and safer.

You will work across multiple web and backend products - payment funnels, subscriptions, AI-powered tools, and internal services - and directly influence the stability, reliability, and delivery speed of everything we build.

You will join a compact, fast-moving team where your decisions matter and your work is visible from day one.
 

Responsibilities:

• Own and develop Kubernetes/Docker-based deployment approaches for production and staging environments.
• Maintain and evolve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, rollback procedures, and release flows.
• Drive observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, and production issue diagnostics.
• Participate in architectural decisions for new service infrastructure.
• Improve stability, security, and predictability of environments.
• Document infrastructure decisions and transfer knowledge to development teams.

What we look for:

• 4+ years of experience in a DevOps / Platform / Infrastructure role, ideally in a product company.
• Production experience with Kubernetes - this is a must, helm+helmfile heavy user.
• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Terraform: creating, maintaining, and evolving infrastructure as code.
• Ansible: configuration management and operational automation.
• Cloudflare: WAF, rate limiting, DDoS mitigation - practical experience required.
• DigitalOcean: our primary cloud provider, AWS.
• CI/CD: Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Linux, networking, DNS, TLS, VPN (Wireguard), cillium network policies,  reverse proxies (traefik), and cloud/network troubleshooting.
• Monitoring and logging: Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Security basics: secrets management (we use 1Password stack), access control, least privilege, basic hardening.

Nice to have:

• Go, PHP, or JavaScript/Node.js at the level of understanding applications and helping with automation/scripts.
• ArgoCD / GitOps experience.
• Experience building AI-agent automation tooling (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, skills) and an understanding of the security implications of AI agents (credential scoping, least-privilege access, prompt-injection awareness).
• Experience with RoadRunner / PHP production applications.
• RabbitMQ / Redis / PostgreSQL / MySQL operational experience.
• VictoriaMetrics stack (+VictoriaLogs).
• Cloudflare: WAF, rate limiting, DDoS mitigation.
• SRE practices: SLOs/SLAs, incident management, post-mortems.
• Experience with Temporal or workflow-based backend systems.
• Cost optimization in cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in product companies with a fast release cycle.

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We offer:

• A real opportunity to shape infrastructure direction, not just maintain someone else's decisions.
• Fast decision-making with minimal bureaucracy.
• Access to all available AI tools.
• A supportive atmosphere — we’re all for creativity and providing opportunities for self-fulfillment.
• Working on inspiring products in a team of supportive professionals.
• A competitive salary package based on your unique expertise, skillset, and impact on the product.
• Reimbursement of professional courses and trainings.In-office, and hybrid/remote work opportunities.
• Flexible working hours.
• Professional equipment and access to the necessary programs.
• Paid vacations, sick days, and other benefits.
• Medical insurance.
• Free lunches in the office.
• A variety of corporate events and team-building activities.