Senior DevOps Engineer

Ciklum

Remote, Bulgaria

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. A senior technical role responsible for designing, automating, securing, and operating multi-cloud platform (OCI & GCP). Ensures high availability, resilience, security, and compliance for all banking workloads while driving automation, GitOps, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

Design and automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform across Google Cloud (GCP) and Oracle Cloud (OCI);
Operate and optimize managed Kubernetes clusters (OKE & GKE);
Manage platform services: Kong API Gateway, Istio/Service Mesh, Vault, ExternalDNS;
Implement GitOps automation using ArgoCD and integrate CI/CD pipelines;
Deploy and manage observability platforms: Dynatrace, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana;
Enhance platform security including SAST, DAST, RBAC, mTLS, image scanning, and DevSecOps controls;
Lead DR failover/failback ensuring alignment with RTO/RPO and SAMA IT Governance;
Troubleshoot distributed systems and guide engineering teams;
Drive platform scalability, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.

Requirements:

Deep expertise in Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Terraform;
Strong managed Kubernetes experience including HA, upgrades, scaling, mesh, gateways;
Proficiency with Istio, API Gateways, Service Mesh, and traffic management;
Experience with Vault for secrets management and PKI;
GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD automation, Helm, Kustomize;
Strong troubleshooting of microservices and distributed systems;
Security experience including SAST/DAST, IAM, mTLS, admission controls.