Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Location: Ukraine
Type: Remote or Hybrid
Client: International enterprise client
Domain: Global digital commerce / ecommerce technology
Engagement: Full-time, long-term cooperation
About Sencury
Sencury A.G. is a Hannover-based software engineering company delivering high-quality technology solutions for international clients. We work with startups and enterprises, helping them design, build, modernize, and operate business-critical software platforms.
Our teams combine strong engineering expertise, transparent delivery, and a practical business-oriented approach. We are now looking for an experienced DevOps / Cloud Engineer to join one of our key enterprise client engagements.
About the Client
Our client is an international technology company operating a large-scale digital commerce platform used by global brands and enterprise customers.
The platform supports complex cross-border ecommerce operations, including localized customer journeys, checkout flows, payment-related integrations, compliance-sensitive processes, logistics-related workflows, fulfillment, returns, and post-purchase customer experience.
The client’s engineering environment is modern, cloud-based, and highly distributed, with a strong focus on automation, reliability, scalability, secure delivery, and continuous platform modernization.
This is an opportunity to join a mature international engineering organization working on a high-traffic, business-critical platform with real global impact.
Position Summary
We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer to support the evolution of the client’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, monitoring, deployment practices, and platform operations.
This role is especially suitable for an engineer with strong Azure experience, solid production mindset, and hands-on knowledge of infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, GitHub-based delivery workflows, and modern observability tooling.
You will work closely with engineering, platform, security, and operations teams to maintain and improve a complex ecommerce technology environment, contribute to ongoing migrations, and help ensure reliability, scalability, security, and delivery efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and improve cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes for a large-scale digital commerce platform.
- Contribute to migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub-based workflows.
- Support migration activities from GitLab to GitHub where required.
- Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows.
- Work with Azure services including Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Web Apps, Azure Front Door, Azure Key Vault, Azure Managed Identities, and Azure SQL.
- Support Kubernetes-based workloads using Helm, YAML manifests, and related deployment tooling.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Bicep.
- Automate operational tasks using PowerShell, Bash, and scripting best practices.
- Support monitoring and observability initiatives, including migration from Azure-native monitoring to Datadog.
- Work with CDN and edge-related services such as Akamai or similar platforms.
- Support integrations with event-streaming and messaging platforms such as Confluent / Kafka.
- Collaborate with security and engineering teams on code quality and security tooling such as SonarCloud.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, networking, and application runtime issues.
- Participate in technical discussions, incident analysis, root cause investigation, and continuous improvement activities.
- Help maintain high standards for reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or similar roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Practical experience with Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, and maintenance.
- Good knowledge of GitHub Actions or GitHub-based engineering workflows.
- Experience with Azure DevOps; migration experience from Azure DevOps to GitHub would be a strong advantage.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform.
- Experience with Bicep or ARM-based Azure infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong scripting skills with PowerShell and Bash.
- Practical experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and YAML.
- Understanding of cloud networking, identity, secrets management, and secure deployment practices.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident troubleshooting.
- Good understanding of production systems, reliability, performance, and operational risk.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work in an international distributed team.
- Upper-Intermediate or higher English level.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS services.
- Experience with GitLab and migration from GitLab to GitHub.
- Experience with Datadog, especially migration from Azure monitoring tools to Datadog.
- Experience with Akamai CDN or similar CDN / edge platforms.
- Experience with Confluent Cloud, Kafka, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with SonarCloud, SAST / DAST, or secure SDLC practices.
- Experience supporting high-load ecommerce, fintech, retail, marketplace, or SaaS platforms.
- Understanding of compliance-sensitive, payment-related, or enterprise-grade environments.
- Experience working with distributed teams in international enterprise settings.
What We Offer
- Long-term cooperation with an international enterprise client.
- Opportunity to work on a large-scale global digital commerce platform.
- Remote or hybrid work from Ukraine.
- Competitive compensation based on experience and seniority.
- Modern cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering stack.
- Direct involvement in meaningful migration and modernization initiatives.
- Work with a production-grade, high-traffic platform serving global business users.
- Professional growth within a stable international engineering environment.
- Supportive Sencury team and transparent cooperation model.
Who We Are Looking For
We are looking for a reliable, proactive, and technically strong engineer who can quickly understand an existing production environment, take ownership of DevOps tasks, and communicate effectively with international stakeholders.
The ideal candidate is not only comfortable writing pipelines and Terraform modules, but also understands how production systems behave, how to troubleshoot issues under pressure, and how to improve platform stability over time.
If you are a Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer with strong Azure experience and a practical engineering mindset, we would be happy to hear from you.