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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!

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

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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