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Bulgaria Remote DevOps

Senior DevOps Engineer / Technical Lead

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Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Technical Lead to join our team full-time in Bulgaria.

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 / Technical Lead, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. 

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the DevOps team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
  • Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP platforms
  • Lead architecture decisions and establish best practices for infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud security
  • Guide the team in implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
  • Drive automation initiatives to improve system reliability and operational efficiency
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployment processes and application performance
  • Facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions and provide hands-on training to team members
  • Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response when necessary

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE roles
  • Tech lead experience – advanced
  • Deep expertise in AWS and GCP cloud platforms and their core services
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
  • Proficiency in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Advanced knowledge of CI/CD tools and practices (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
  • Strong scripting abilities (Python, Bash, or similar)
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
  • Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal

Desirable

  • Technical leadership / Mentorship
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet)
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Additional cloud platform certifications

Personal skills

  • Strong leadership and mentoring abilities
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
  • Self-motivated with a passion for technology and innovation
  • Patient and supportive when helping team members grow
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

What's in it for you

  • Care: your health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, Multisport cards, as well as financial and legal consultations
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy license, language courses and company-paid certifications
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just dont miss your regular team stand-up
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfill your potential
  • Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
  • Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:

Ciklum entered Bulgaria in 2022 to expand its presence in Eastern Europe. We are ready to welcome bright talents. 
Be a part of a big story created right now. Let’s grow our delivery center in Bulgaria together! Boost your skills and knowledge: create and innovate with like-minded professionals—all of that within a global company with a local spirit and start-up soul. 

Be bold, not bored!

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

Interested already?

We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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