Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes & GitOps)
Miratech · Kyiv, Ukraine
IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees
About the role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, operate, and improve production-grade Kubernetes platforms while implementing GitOps workflows. They will also partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues and build automation for infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production and proficiency with GitOps tools like Flux or Argo CD. Additionally, the role requires expertise in cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, and scripting languages such as Python or Go.
Benefits
Full description
Company Description
Miratech helps visionaries change the world. We are a global IT services and consulting company that brings together enterprise and start-up innovation. Today, we support digital transformation for some of the world's largest enterprises. By partnering with both large and small players, we stay at the leading edge of technology, remain nimble even as a global leader, and create technology that helps our clients further enhance their business. We are a values-driven organization and our culture of Relentless Performance has enabled over 99% of Miratech's engagements to succeed by meeting or exceeding our scope, schedule, and/or budget objectives since our inception in 1989. 
Miratech has coverage across 5 continents and operates in over 25 countries around the world. Miratech retains nearly 1000 full-time professionals, and our annual growth rate exceeds 25%.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production at scale. This role is ideal for someone who has owned real-world Kubernetes platforms, understands the operational complexity of running distributed systems in production, and has strong experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows.
The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building, improving, and supporting cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and production reliability practices. This person should be comfortable working across infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable and repeatable deployment platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and improve production-grade Kubernetes platforms.
- Build and maintain Kubernetes workloads, manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, and deployment patterns.
- Implement and support GitOps workflows using Flux, Argo CD, or similar tools.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable, and secure application delivery.
- Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, networking, compute, storage, and application layers.
- Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
- Support cloud infrastructure operations across AWS, GCP, Windows, or hybrid environments.
- Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, service mesh, DNS, TLS, secrets, and workload identity patterns.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Collaborate with security teams to improve container, cluster, secrets, and supply-chain security.
- Mentor engineers on Kubernetes, DevOps, GitOps, and production operations best practices.
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
- Advanced Kubernetes knowledge, including deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, RBAC, network policies, probes, HPA, and storage.
- Strong GitOps experience, with Flux or Argo CD.
- Strong CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Helm and/or Kustomize.
- Strong Linux systems, networking, and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, including EKS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, or CloudWatch.
- Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or similar tools
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, Better Stack, or similar.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across application, infrastructure, and networking layers.
- Strong written communication skills, especially for runbooks, architecture notes, and operational documentation.
Nice to Have 
- Service Mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd, Consul).
- Secrets Management experience (Vault, External Secrets, Sealed Secrets).
- Platform Engineering experience. Multi-region architectures.
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
- Microservices and Distributed Systems experience.
- Incident Management and Postmortem practices.
- SRE practices and SLO-based operations.
Additional Information
We offer:
- Culture of Relentless Performance: join an unstoppable technology development team with a 99% project success rate and more than 30% year-over-year revenue growth.
- Competitive Pay and Benefits: enjoy a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, and a relocation program.
- Work From Anywhere Culture: make the most of the flexibility that comes with remote work.
- Growth Mindset: reap the benefits of a range of professional development opportunities, including certification programs, mentorship and talent investment programs, internal mobility and internship opportunities.
- Global Impact: collaborate on impactful projects for top global clients and shape the future of industries.
- Welcoming Multicultural Environment: be a part of a dynamic, global team and thrive in an inclusive and supportive work environment with open communication and regular team-building company social events.
- Social Sustainability Values: join our sustainable business practices focused on five pillars, including IT education, community empowerment, fair operating practices, environmental sustainability, and gender equality.
* Miratech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law.