Principal DevOps Engineer

A bit about us:

Wakeley Data Systems is a managed services provider with 360 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organisations across Estonia. Headquartered in Tartu, the company has grown since 2012 by acquiring regional IT providers. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

Role overview:

Wakeley Data Systems has an opening for a Principal DevOps Engineer. DevOps role with a strong infrastructure-as-code focus. Most of what we run is defined in Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions. Our team is spread across 20 countries. Headquarters is in Tartu. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Belgium, with a local contract and salary paid in euros. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities:

• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection.
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments.
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM.
• Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.

Who you are:

• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch.
• Calm under pressure during outages.
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production.
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)

What we offer:

Rate: €8,200 to €10,500 per month

• Performance bonus.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible hours.
• Annual learning budget.
• 20 days paid time off.
• Annual salary review.
• Monthly internet allowance.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wakeley Data Systems.