We are seeking a mid-level to senior DevOps Specialist (with emphasis on Ops) to join a global agile product team delivering a large-scale tax invoicing solution. The solution is event-driven, microservice-based, and processes ~1.5M transactions per day with thousands of events per second.

This is a hands-on, deeply technical assignment — you will be responsible for setup, deployment, monitoring, and operations of critical production systems across multiple cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters on GCP and RedHat OpenShift (including Helm deployments).
• Support distributed deployments on GCP, Alicloud, and Orbit.
• Manage Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes (Strimzi operator), schema registry, and Kafka Connect integrations (GCP Pub/Sub, JDBC, Elastic, Solace).
• Maintain PostgreSQL databases and API gateways (Ambassador, Ory Oathkeeper, Apache HTTP proxy).
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, Kibana, Logstash, Alertmanager).
• Support CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), artifact repositories (Artifactory, Nexus).
• Collaborate in an agile DevOps team delivering new features, rollouts, and maintenance.

Skills & Experience

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes on GCP with Helm deployment.
• Hands-on experience with distributed event-driven systems (Kafka, Kafka Streams, Confluent stack).
• Knowledge of microservices, REST APIs, and databases (PostgreSQL).
• Familiarity with monitoring & observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic).
• CI/CD and automation experience with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Strong problem-solving skills, persistence, and ownership mindset.

Top 3 Must-Haves

• GCP Kubernetes cluster management
• Thoroughness — ability to understand impact of changes and avoid critical mistakes
• Persistence — resilience in solving complex operational issues