Posted 8 months ago

Senior DevOps Engineer

KaunasHybridFull-time

AI Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for owning and improving production apps on Kubernetes, building CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, and setting up observability using Elasticsearch and Prometheus.

About this role

Tribe, a brand-new payments processor, is looking to continue its rapid expansion in the payments market. Tribe is a group of people that have come together with the singular purpose of making the world of payments simple and accessible. Join our ever-growing Tribe Payments team as a DevOps Engineer and help us change the way this market perceives payments.

What You Would Do:

Own and improve our apps running on Kubernetes platform:

Build and maintain Helm charts for our services

Standardize deployment patterns, configuration, and release strategies

Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of workloads running on k8s

Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab:

Design flexible pipelines for build, test, security scanning, and deploymentIntroduce best practices (versioning, feature flags, rollbacks, approvals, etc.)

Continuously improve speed, reliability, and developer experience

Set up and improve observability:

Use Elasticsearch , Prometheus (and related tooling) to create useful dashboards & alerts

Help teams understand logs, metrics, and traces — turn data into decisions

Build early-warning detection frameworks and validation/simulation practices to surface failure modes before production

Research & experiment:

Investigate new tools, patterns, and AWS services; compare alternatives

POC and validate ideas before rolling them out to production

Bring proposals to the team, explain trade-offs and lead implementation

Apply new learning specifically to solve harder reliability/scalability/automation problems and show progress through delivered outcomes.

Document and share knowledge:

Write clear runbooks, architecture/infra documentation, and “how-to” guides

Make sure others can understand, reproduce, and maintain what you build

Prevent long-term system “decay” by simplifying complex setups and institutionalizing sustainable best practices.

Collaborate across teams:

Work closely with developers, security, product and operations

Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention work

Align infrastructure decisions with product goals, cost efficiency, and deployment impact; proactively flag technical risks affecting availability/performance

You have

Previous work experience as a DevOps Engineer (senior-level, owning and improving production systems)

Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and GitLab, understanding of CI/CD, logging and monitoring processes, including:

Operate AWS environment. Building and maintaining Kubernetes Helm charts for production workloads

Designing, implementing, and maintaining GitLab pipelines for complex applications

Undeniable Linux experience and skills

Solid knowledge of web servers, networking basics, and bash scripting.

Bonus points if you have experience with

MySQL (or other databases) at scale

PHP (Symfony framework)

Familiarity with some of: Message Brokers, logging and monitoring systems

Fluent communication skills in English;

Working knowledge of incorporating robust code security practices to safeguard the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of software systems including but not limited to OWASP secure coding guidelines;

Effective collaboration skills, capable of working well in a team environment that values security and quality.

Strong documentation mindset – you naturally document architecture, decisions, and procedures so others can follow and maintain them.

A genuine interest in researching, testing, and introducing new ideas and tools, not just “keeping the lights on”.

We offer

High-performing teams. At Tribe we think outside the box, take ownership of what we do, aim high and deliver uncompromising quality. You will be surrounded by a smart and high-performing team with a collaborative mindset.

Health & Wellness. Health insurance package from the first day that you will join our team. Enjoyable daily lunches & Pizza Fridays. Variety of healthy snacks, fresh fruits, and drinks in the office.

Level up. We constantly explore the possibilities within our industry and in the technology we build. To keep your minds curious we offer: Tribe Learning Days - time freely spent on self-education; Internal and external training; Tribe Learning library stocked with tech books; Learning & Development budget for conferences, training, podcasts, online courses, and professional certifications.

Work-life balance. To increase your productivity we are offering a hybrid work model - you can plan your work partly from the office or remotely from your home. You can combine your work & vacations, so be ready to plan workations. For 2 weeks per year, you can work from anywhere - and we mean anywhere! Extra days off for your health and birthday day off!

Tribe Vibe & Culture. At Tribe, we foster a positive and fun working environment, which is called a “tribe vibe”. Even if we work hard, we do not forget to party as well: be ready for legendary tribe fest and winter fest parties, events for the tribe community every month, and regular team building.

Office & Environment. Open, creative, and fun working environment in the brand new BLC2 business center with provided parking places. To relax your mind and body - table foosball, table tennis, and massage chair. If you mostly work from home - we offer a home office budget to make your workplace comfortable.

The salary range for this position is 3300- 7000 euros/monthly gross. The salary proposal depends on your competencies and seniority level.

Skills

AWSBashElasticsearchGitLab CI/CDHelmKubernetesLinuxMessage BrokersMySQLPHPPrometheusSymfony

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