DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management & Ownership: Take full ownership of the cloud infrastructure across AWS and DigitalOcean, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security;
• CI/CD Pipeline Design: Designing, building, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines optimized for PHP (Laravel) and JavaScript (Vue.js) applications;
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Maintaining and expanding the existing infrastructure using IaC tools to ensure reproducible and documented environments;
• Monitoring & Alerting: Setting up, optimizing, and monitoring application and server metrics; establishing proactive alerting systems to minimize downtime;
• Collaboration & Leadership: Acting as a key DevOps stakeholder (co-leading the infra direction in a 2-person team), collaborating closely with the development team to streamline deployment processes and troubleshoot issues.

Requirements:

     Essential

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53, etc.) and DigitalOcean (Droplets, Spaces, Load Balancers);
• Proficient with CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions) specifically for deploying web applications;
• Deep understanding of Docker (writing optimized Dockerfiles, managing multi-container environments);
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration, web servers (Nginx, Apache), and process managers;
• Experience managing and scaling databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis, Memcached);

• Proficiency in Bash or Python for automation tasks.

   

  Desirable

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible;
• Basic or hands-on experience with Kubernetes (e.g., AWS EKS or DigitalOcean Kubernetes) in case of future migration;
• Understanding the lifecycle of Laravel app (queues, Horizon, Artisan) and Vue.js building/caching strategies (Vite/Webpack);
• Experience with ELK stack, OpenSearch, Graylog, or cloud-native logging.
• Experience with security, privacy, and compliance standards and regulations, such as HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR, would be a plus.

We offer:

• Comfortable working hours (10-19 Kyiv time zone);
• Regular result-based performance and salary reviews;
• Bonus system;
• Attractive social package (unlimited and fully paid sick days, fully paid vacation, birthday day off, etc;)
• Corporate equipment on request;
• Fully or partially funded education (courses, certifications, conferences, etc.)
• Partial payment for English and Sports;
• Friendly and open-minded team;
• Established product-focused environment;
• Range of tasks, from quick and simple to challenging investigation to run;
• Cheerful & dynamic environment;
• Virtual workspace with perspective to move into one of the offices;
• Mentorship.

Hiring steps:

• First interview with the Recruiter;
• Technical interview with the CTO;
• Job Offer.