Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

You will build and maintain GitOps-based delivery pipelines and design self-service tooling to enable product teams to deploy independently. Additionally, you will implement deployment safety guardrails and leverage AI tools to accelerate operational delivery.

Requirements

Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering with deep expertise in Kubernetes and AWS. A strong background in GitOps, CI/CD, and an ownership mentality is required, along with the ability to mentor other engineers.

Skills

• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• ArgoCD
• AWS
• Platform engineering
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as code
• Python
• Go
• Node.js
• Helm
• Kustomize
• Service mesh
• CloudFront
• IAM
• VPC networking

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Mental health support
• Financial consultations
• Legal consultations
• Internal training
• Udemy access
• Language courses
• Company-paid certifications
• Flexible work

About this role

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.

Our client's infrastructure powers millions of live sports events worldwide -
from raw video capture at remote venues to real-time stream delivery and
ML-driven monetization. As a DevOps & Platform Engineer, you will be a core
contributor to the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our
cloud platform.
You'll work inside a self-service, pod-based engineering model where your job is
to build the platforms, pipelines, and guardrails that let product teams ship
independently - at high velocity and with full operational ownership. This is a
high-autonomy, high-impact individual contributor role with a clear technical
growth path.

Responsibilities:

* Build and maintain GitOps-based delivery pipelines (ArgoCD) so product pods
deploy safely without DevOps intervention
* Design and evolve self-service tooling - golden paths, deployment templates,
scaffolding - that reduce pod dependency on the platform team
* Implement deployment safety guardrails: config diffing, change ownership,
rollout strategies, and audit trails
* Adopt industry-leading AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate
development, automation, and operational delivery

Requirements:

* 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
* Production-grade Kubernetes experience: EKS/GKE, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux),
service mesh, multi-tenant cluster operations, resource management
* Deep hands-on GitOps and CI/CD: ArgoCD or Flux, Kustomize/Helm, rollout
strategies, deployment safety, change ownership, audit trails
* AWS platform depth: EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM/IRSA, VPC networking, RDS,
cost optimization levers
* Platform engineering orientation - you think in platforms and self-service,
not one-off scripts or manual runbooks
* AI-first approach - actively uses AI tools to accelerate development and
operations; not just aware of them, but fluent
* Ownership mentality - own outcomes end-to-end, escalate only when truly
blocked, and translate infrastructure complexity into business impact
* People leadership skills, including mentoring and developing engineers, as
well as conducting technical interviews

Desirable:

* GCP experience (GKE, GCS, Cloud Run) or hybrid multi-cloud operations
* Video streaming infrastructure: HLS, RTMP, CDN optimization, live video
pipelines
* FinOps / cost optimization: cost attribution, right-sizing, storage lifecycle
policies
* Development background (Python, Go, Node.js, or similar)

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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About Ciklum

IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees · headquartered in London, England · founded 2002