Senior Devops Engineer
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Malta
Reporting To: Etienne Mula
Description
At GiG, we’re looking for a Senior Devops Engineer with strong expertise in platform engineering, automation, and you'll help scale containerized workloads, improve system observability, and optimize cloud environments for performance and cost-efficiency.
Key Responsibilities & Requirements
Responsabilities:
- Deep understanding of both operational and containerisation principles, together with a proven track record of designing and delivering solutions to maintain reliable and resilient platforms.
- Design and deliver reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure — with a strong focus on Kubernetes and CI/CD automation.
- Automate infrastructure workflows using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or Kustomize.
- Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives: resource usage analysis, budgeting, reporting, and tooling.
- Improve system observability and incident response processes, aligned with SRE practices to an intimate understanding of platform behaviour and performance, with which one may also proactively detect problems in not-so-familiar systems during incident escalations
- Collaborate with Solution Architects and cross-functional tech teams as a technical reference and mentor.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Previous technical experience in a senior technical role.
- Deep understanding of the following: Container platforms operations and architectures CI/CD toolchains and related practices
- Proven experience building, deploying, maintaining, and operating SaaS products in a cost-effective manner on popular Public Cloud Providers (mainly AWS).
- Demonstrated experience with cloud cost optimization strategies, cost monitoring tools, and financial reporting related to cloud spend.
- Infrastructure as Code and Templating (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize)
- Solid Linux knowledge, including filesystems, day-to-day administration such as monitoring and observability, cli tools, scripting etc..
- Grasp of networking concepts, including TCP/IP layers, Load Balancers, reverse proxies, firewalling and packet inspection practices.
- Experience building, deploying, maintaining, and operating SaaS products in a cost effective manner on popular Public clouds providers.
- Sound understanding of the software development ecosystem: use of Git, environment segregation, scrum methodologies etc.
- Ability to articulate technical documentation and design architecture blueprints.
Benefits
- Great career development opportunities
- Hybrid working model
- International Health Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
- Birthday Day Off
- Me Time - 1 day off per year
role opened: August 15th
role closed: September 1st