Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer
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Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer owning AWS, Kubernetes, security, and observability for MEDvidi’s AI mental healthcare platform. Driving reliable infrastructure and developer experience remotely from Portugal.
Responsibilities:
- Set and drive the technical vision and quarterly roadmap for infrastructure with clear trade-offs and measurable goals
- Run and evolve AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure, including cluster management, autoscaling with Karpenter, policy enforcement with Kyverno, and zero-downtime operations
- Own Infrastructure as Code end to end using Terraform and AWS CDK in TypeScript
- Own GitLab CI/CD, including reusable/shared templates, OIDC, and self-managed GitLab
- Build and own practical observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, log pipelines, and APM
- Maintain fast blue-green deployments and health-gated automated rollback
- Own zero-downtime PostgreSQL schema migrations using expand/contract and CI migration gating
- Own security engineering in a HIPAA environment, including secrets hygiene, credential rotation, short-lived credentials, leak scanning, PHI-aware log and data handling, and Vault managed as code
- Partner directly with product teams to remove infrastructure friction and improve developer experience
- Use agentic AI as a core part of the workflow and integrate autonomous-agent output into production
- Set technical direction, ship infrastructure hands-on, and own outcomes for reliability, cost, security, performance, deployment health, and developer experience
Requirements:
- 6+ years in DevOps/infrastructure engineering
- Strong systems fundamentals
- Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting, including performance analysis, resource management, and process debugging
- Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, ALB, and S3
- Production Kubernetes/EKS experience, including cluster management, node scaling, and policy enforcement; Karpenter, Kyverno, or similar
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and AWS CDK in TypeScript
- CI/CD ownership with GitLab CI/CD, including reusable/shared templates, OIDC id_tokens, and self-managed GitLab
- Practical monitoring and observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, log-shipping, and error tracking/APM
- Practical security engineering experience with secrets rotation, short-lived credentials, leak scanning, and PHI-aware logging
- HashiCorp Vault as code experience, including KV, JWT/OIDC authentication for CI, and policy design
- Blue-green deployments with automated, health-gated rollback
- PostgreSQL zero-downtime schema migrations using expand/contract and migration gating in CI
- Containers experience with Docker, ECR, immutable tags, and image lifecycle
- Network/protocol fundamentals including load balancing, TLS, and DNS
- Hands-on agentic AI workflows, such as Claude Code or similar
- Developer-focused mindset and strong problem-solving for complex system issues
- Strong technical writing, including docs-as-code, ADRs, and design docs via MRs
- Fluent Russian and English (B1)
- Experience working effectively in remote, distributed teams
- Preferred: experience in regulated/compliance-heavy environments such as HIPAA or SOC 2
- Preferred: Ansible for VM fleet management
- Preferred: Node.js application operations with pm2 and npm
- Preferred: GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux and deeper PostgreSQL database administration
- Preferred: AWS certifications
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation package
- Health insurance after the probation period
- Sports & wellness compensation
- Personalized English lessons via Preply
- 19 paid vacation days annually
- 4 additional wellness days each year
- Paid sick leave for the first 5 working days
- Thoughtful gifts for key life events
- Offline corporate events
- Fully remote long-term collaboration under a B2B model














