Senior DevOps Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

You are passionate about cloud technologies, automation, reliability, security and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in designing, building and operating secure, scalable and cost-efficient cloud platforms on AWS. Working closely with Software Engineers, Architects, DevOps Engineers and Product teams,
you will help drive platform reliability, developer enablement, cloud governance, FinOps and operational excellence across the domain. We are looking for technology experts who want to make an impact by applying best practices, taking ownership and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Our client is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. It is a global team within our client's technology responsible for the delivery and operation of customer facing web services. They are a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Agile Delivery providing services across the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands. They are ambitious to become the leader in technology within the travel industry and to achieve this we are looking to build a capable, creative team who want to be a part of accomplishing that goal.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and industry best practices
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes
• Drive DevOps culture and automation across development and operations teams
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and frequent releases
• Collaborate with Software Engineers, Technical Leads and Architects to define cloud- native solutions and deployment strategies
• Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting and logging solutions across all environments
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, scalability and operational excellence
• Support incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities
• Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM, network security, secrets management and compliance controls
• Optimise cloud resource utilisation and contribute to FinOps initiatives to improve cost efficiency
• Define and document cloud architecture, technical designs, operational procedures and runbooks
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure environments are aligned with delivery needs
• Contribute to platform standardisation, reusable tooling and engineering governance initiatives
• Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing, workshops and technical mentoring
• Delivery. Build and maintain reliable cloud platforms according to engineering standards
• Code Quality. Follow and improve Infrastructure as Code and automation standards
• Analyse & Estimate. Assess infrastructure requirements, technical risks and implementation effort
• Software & Infrastructure Design. Create and review cloud architecture designs and infrastructure solutions

Requirements:

• Strong experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch and Systems Manager (SSM)
• Experience with AI-assisted infrastructure operations and cloud automation
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, reusable modules and infrastructure automation
• Strong experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar platforms
• Strong experience with source control management and Git-based development workflows
• Strong experience with observability platforms including CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and ELK
• Strong experience implementing operational excellence practices including SLI, SLO and SLA management
• Strong experience troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving preventative measures
• Good experience with AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, NAT Gateways and PrivateLink
• Good experience developing automation solutions using Python, Bash or similar technologies
• Strong experience with AWS Security Hub, compliance frameworks and security remediation activities
• Experience supporting microservices and distributed architectures in production environments
• Strong background in cloud cost optimization and FinOps governance, with hands-on experience using Cloudability or similar platforms to manage reporting, visibility, and cloud spend
• Experience designing and implementing automated remediation workflows
• Strong understanding of release management, deployment strategies and environment management
• DevOps as a mindset
• Customer-centric, passionate about delivering reliable digital platforms and services
• Demonstrating a true engineering craftsmanship mindset
• Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with excellent communication skills
• Open-minded, inquisitive, life-long learner
• Comfortable with ambiguity and highly autonomous

Desirable:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and Platform Engineering practices
• Experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
• Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Experience driving cloud migration initiatives, account onboarding and AWS platform transformations
• Experience building reusable platform components, self-service capabilities and developer enablement tooling
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and engineering tooling including Jira, Confluence and GitHub

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Flexibility: Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

As one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies and a top employer recognized by Forbes, we’ve spent over 20 years delivering meaningful tech solutions. We proudly support diverse talent and military veterans, recognizing their unique skills and perspectives they bring to shaping the future.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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