DevOps Team Lead, Remote

Opalkeep employs 25,800 people across engineering hubs in Sofia and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

The position

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. You'll sit between development and operations, fixing broken pipelines, writing automation and keeping environments consistent. Our team is spread across 8 countries. Headquarters is in Sofia. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in the UK, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

Main duties

• Automate server configuration with Ansible
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions
• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing
• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM

Minimum qualifications

• 8-10 years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Calm under pressure during outages
• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts

Preferred

• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd
• Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits
• Background in software development

Why work with us

• Public holidays observed per your country
• 20 days paid time off
• Company laptop
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Annual team retreat

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Opalkeep EOOD.