Senior DevOps Engineer

Artkai helps mid-market and enterprise teams modernize software, automate business processes, and build AI-powered applications. They are launching a major new long-term initiative for a European financial-infrastructure client. The Senior DevOps Engineer will own environments, CI/CD workflows, and deployments, building everything from scratch.

• Own environments, end-to-end CI/CD workflows, and deployments (building everything from scratch).
• Handle remote HSM interactions and secrets operations.
• Instrument strict SLAs and configure comprehensive alerting mechanisms.
• Manage incident response, quarterly patch releases, and execute resilience/disaster-recovery drills.
• Collaborate with the SA and PMO to design robust CI/CD and engineering processes across all system components, while preparing the backlog for required automations.
• Establish the core IaC structure from the ground up, formulate the IaC backlog, and jumpstart infrastructure provisioning automation.

• 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience, specifically focused on DevOps/Platform engineering.
• Deep mastery of Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI or GitHub Actions).
• Hands-on experience with secrets management (HashiCorp Vault) and security/vulnerability scanning (Trivy/Syft).
• Comprehensive observability setups using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Experience with EU-region cloud environments and hybrid on-prem setups, as well as disaster-recovery (DR) drills for DORA resilience testing.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools in DevOps workflows (IaC generation, pipeline optimization, troubleshooting, and automation).
• Upper-Intermediate (B2/C1) or higher language proficiency.
• Nice-to-have: foundational understanding of HSM (Hardware Security Modules).
• High degree of self-sufficiency: capable of tackling and resolving issues within the DevOps zone of responsibility independently.
• Proactive problem-solver: able to identify operational blockers, raise them to management alongside well-reasoned, proposed solutions, and continuously improve the DevOps lifecycle.
• Strong teamwork and client-facing collaboration skills.