Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Ciklum
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.

We are a leading global product engineering and digital services company that unites 4000+ seasoned professionals globally on various projects in healthcare, fintech, travel, sportswear, entertainment, and security. Ciklum delivers high-impact technology solutions to Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations worldwide.

**About the role:**

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team working for Ciklum Client.

**About the Project:**

Akamai enterprise application access (EAA) product provides enterprise end-users access to enterprise owned services provisioned in some enterprise data centers. This sort of solution is called Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and is considered best practice for enterprise organizations who are looking to allow remote access for users while maintaining a high level of security (unlike the legacy VPN solutions). With ZTNA, users are first authenticated by an enterprise preferred identity provider and access is restricted to only those services that the authenticated user is authorized to access.

EAA is a leading ZTNA product with many hundreds of customers around the world. To support the operation of this product, the EAA backend runs a distributed infrastructure platform that spans the entire globe and is monitored and operated 24/7.

Nowadays, The Akamai EAA is transforming its infrastructure to run on top of a Kubernetes environment, which would allow it to scale even further in a cost-optimized fashion. This transformation will make EAA a multi-cloud platform, spanning more than 3 different clouds.

**Responsibilities**
Support our migration of ZTNA services from AWS to Linode
Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on the ZTNA Cloud Platform
Analyzing and improving the security, stability, speed, and capacity of Akamai Zero Trust production network
Develop procedures that would help us to automate our SRE/Ops day-by-day work.
Monitor our services health and handle alerts to ensure quick resolution and SLA
Analyzing logs and events
Identify appropriate use of cloud operational best practices
Estimate cloud usage costs and identify operational cost control mechanisms
Participating in weekend maintenances ( up to once a month)

**Requirements**
Have at least 5 years of relevant experience as a cloud SRE
Strong experience with cloud services
Strong experience in managing K8s services
Experience working on Linux preferably Ubuntu
Experience in large-scale cloud-based Infrastructure, AWS preferred (EC2, Route53, S3, IAM, VPC using Boto/Boto3)
Experience with Monitoring/Logging/Performance Analytics such as Prometheus, Sensu, Nagios, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana or DataDog
Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch cluster
Experience with deployment and configuration management tools such as Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and Chef
Experience in setting up, configuring and maintenance of load balancers, Nginx/Apache proxies and common infrastructure such as Postgres, Elasticsearch, Rabbitmq, Celery, Active Directory
Strong understanding of HTTP/S and related web technologies
Understanding of TCP/IP
Experience with configuration and management software such GIT
Adaptable and able to work over the weekends when needed
Ability to work in a collaborative environment
Detail-oriented, strong work ethic and high standard of excellence
Fast learner, Achiever, sets high personal goals
Maintain and improve consistently high customer satisfaction

**What's in it for you**
Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, Mental Health programs, as well as financial and legal consultations
Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy licence, 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: choose how you want to work – a 100% remote or on-site in our offices. 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 fulfil 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:**

Discover the pros of 20-year global experience! Join one of the largest IT companies in Ukraine, awarded as one of the top 10 employers in Ukraine by Forbes.

Boost your skills and make a difference with cutting-edge projects, skilled colleagues and the latest tech stacks.

Ciklum has been recognised as a veteran-friendly business by the Veteran Hub in Ukraine.
We’re committed to creating a welcoming environment for veterans and developing processes that meet their needs. We value the skills and unique perspectives military veterans can bring to our business and are willing to support their transition to civilian life.

Be bold, not bored!