Senior DevOps Engineer

Description Ciklum · Romania · posted today ago

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About this role

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time in Romania.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Our client's infrastructure powers millions of live sports events worldwide - from raw video capture at remote venues to real-time stream delivery and ML-driven monetization. As a DevOps & Platform Engineer, you will be a core contributor to the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our cloud platform.
You'll work inside a self-service, pod-based engineering model where your job is to build the platforms, pipelines, and guardrails that let product teams ship independently - at high velocity and with full operational ownership. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact individual contributor role with a clear technical growth path.

Responsibilities:

Build and maintain GitOps-based delivery pipelines (ArgoCD) so product pods deploy safely without DevOps intervention
Design and evolve self-service tooling - golden paths, deployment templates, scaffolding - that reduce pod dependency on the platform team
Implement deployment safety guardrails: config diffing, change ownership, rollout strategies, and audit trails
Adopt industry-leading AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, automation, and operational delivery

Requirements:

5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
Production-grade Kubernetes experience: EKS/GKE, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), service mesh, multi-tenant cluster operations, resource management
Deep hands-on GitOps and CI/CD: ArgoCD or Flux, Kustomize/Helm, rollout strategies, deployment safety, change ownership, audit trails
AWS platform depth: EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM/IRSA, VPC networking, RDS, cost optimization levers
Platform engineering orientation - you think in platforms and self-service, not one-off scripts or manual runbooks
AI-first approach - actively uses AI tools to accelerate development and operations; not just aware of them, but fluent
Ownership mentality - own outcomes end-to-end, escalate only when truly blocked, and translate infrastructure complexity into business impact
People leadership skills, including mentoring and developing engineers, as well as conducting technical interviews

Desirable:

GCP experience (GKE, GCS, Cloud Run) or hybrid multi-cloud operations
Video streaming infrastructure: HLS, RTMP, CDN optimization, live video pipelines
FinOps / cost optimization: cost attribution, right-sizing, storage lifecycle policies
Development background (Python, Go, Node.js, or similar)

What’s in it for you?

Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
Care: Medical subscription to Regina Maria, meal tickets of 40 ron net/day worked

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

In Romania, we welcome top-tier tech talent — whether from our Bucharest office or fully remotely. Tap into deep industry knowledge, grow your career, and make an impact in an empowering environment.