Keyword

This role is part of the Keyword.com team — one of the growing brands within saas.group.

Keyword.com is a keyword rank tracking and SERP & AI Visibility analytics platform that helps SEO teams track rankings and uncover opportunities that matter.

Profile Overview
 

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join us on a part-time basis to provide expert-level direction and execution for our infrastructure. This is not a "maintenance" role; we need a seasoned professional who can jump into a complex, high-scale environment and immediately begin streamlining it.

We are looking for a specialist who can work autonomously, define "golden paths" and execute high-impact architectural changes (like our cloud consolidation) with confidence.
 

Our Stack: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes (AWS & Hetzner), Terraform, Ansible, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka connect, Debezium (MariaDB → ClickHouse), Infisical.

Your immediate impact in the first 3–6 months will be:
 

• Design and begin the execution of a pragmatic roadmap to move us from a scattered landscape toward a unified single-cloud setup
• Establishing "Infrastructure-as-Code" patterns that allow the rest of the engineering team to move safely without needing constant DevOps intervention
• Improving GitOps + CI/CD reliability so that deployments are boring, predictable, and fast

Your responsibilities:
 

• Platform Leadership: Take lead on the technical direction of our Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, ensuring we are building for scalability and long-term reliability
• Cloud Migration Strategy: Define the milestones for our cloud consolidation and execute the high-risk migrations safely
• Developer Empowerment: Build "golden paths" (templates, tooling, and docs) that enable full-time developers to self-serve while maintaining high infrastructure standards
• IaC Excellence: Maintain and modularize our Terraform and Ansible codebases to eliminate manual steps and reduce configuration drift.
• Reliability Engineering: Level up our observability (alerts/dashboards) so that the system is easier to monitor even when you are offline.

What you bring to the table:
 

• Strong hands-on experience running production Kubernetes, including real troubleshooting and operational ownership (managed and/or self-hosted)
• Proven experience with GitOps (ArgoCD or similar) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Deep knowledge of Terraform (modules, state management, safe rollouts) and a practical automation mindset (Ansible, scripting)
• Solid understanding of cloud primitives (networking, IAM/security, storage, compute) and distributed system failure modes
• Experience improving reliability for high-scale systems (data-heavy workloads, large storage footprints, worker fleets, microservices)
• You’re proactive and collaborative — you like being close to developers and the business, and you translate platform work into real product impact

• Excellent written and verbal English communication (we collaborate async via Slack/GitHub)

   

Nice to have:
 

• Experience leading a cloud migration / consolidation (multi-cloud → single-cloud, or on-prem → cloud)
• Strong security posture experience (least privilege, secret handling, cluster hardening)

Note on the use of AI:
 

We’re AI enthusiasts and use it daily (Claude Team Premium, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini Enterprise). But we’re not “vibe coders”. We use AI thoughtfully — and we take everything that lands in our repositories seriously. Regardless of where code comes from, the engineer is responsible for it.
 

What’s in it for you:

• Ultimate flexibility: We’re remote-first
• Freedom and autonomy: High trust, high ownership, and the space to do your best work
• Real impact: You’ll own a mission-critical area and directly shape the product’s future
• Small, senior team: Work closely with developers and stakeholders; move quickly and ship meaningful improvements

This role is part of the Keyword.com team — one of the growing brands within saas.group.

Keyword.com is a keyword rank tracking and SERP & AI Visibility analytics platform that helps SEO teams track rankings and uncover opportunities that matter.

Profile overview
 

We’re looking for a Strong Middle DevOps Engineer to join Keyword.com and help us level up our infrastructure and delivery practices.

This is not a “keep the lights on” role. You’ll be joining a high-scale, real-world environment where the goal is to simplify, standardize, and make our platform boringly reliable — while moving fast and learning a lot.

We’re explicitly looking for A-players: people who enjoy hard problems, take ownership, aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo, and want to grow into broader platform leadership over time.

Our stack: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes (AWS & Hetzner), Terraform, Ansible, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka connect, Debezium (MariaDB → ClickHouse), Infisical.

What you’ll achieve in your first 3–6 months
 

• Assist in executing a pragmatic roadmap to move us from a scattered landscape toward a unified, high-performance single-cloud setup
• Refactor and modularize Terraform/Ansible patterns so the engineering team can deploy safely without hand-holding
• Fine-tune our GitOps and CI/CD reliability until deployments are fast, predictable, and "boring"
   

Your responsibilities
 

• Kubernetes & Platform Operations: Own day-to-day reliability and improvements across our clusters (troubleshooting, scaling, hardening, upgrades)
• Cloud Consolidation Execution: Support and execute parts of our migration/consolidation plan with careful risk management
• Developer Enablement: Build and maintain templates, tooling, documentation, and workflows that let developers self-serve safely
• IaC Quality & Automation: Improve and modularize Terraform and Ansible to reduce drift, eliminate manual steps, and enable safe rollouts
• Reliability Engineering: Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response patterns, and operational discipline

What you bring to the table
 

• Solid hands-on experience running production Kubernetes and the ability to troubleshoot under pressure
• Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD or similar) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Good working knowledge of Terraform (modules, state, rollouts) and automation tooling (Ansible and/or scripting)
• Understanding of cloud fundamentals: networking, IAM/security, storage, compute, and common distributed failure modes
• A builder mindset: you like making systems simpler, safer, and repeatable
• Strong ownership: you take problems from “unclear and messy” to “fixed and documented”
• Comfortable collaborating async (Slack/GitHub) with good level of English

Note on the use of AI
 

We’re AI enthusiasts and use it daily (Claude Team Premium, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini Enterprise). But we’re not “vibe coders”. We use AI thoughtfully — and we take everything that lands in our repositories seriously. Regardless of where code comes from, the engineer is responsible for it.
 

What’s in it for you

• Ultimate flexibility: We’re remote-first
• Freedom and autonomy: High trust, high ownership, and the space to do your best work
• Real impact: You’ll own a mission-critical area and directly shape the product’s future
• Small, senior team: Work closely with developers and stakeholders; move quickly and ship meaningful improvements