DevOps Engineer (Experienced in Python)

We are seeking a talented and driven DevOps Engineer with a strong passion for automation and continuous delivery who is interested in hands-on programing. In this role, you will be pivotal with a significant focus on enhancing our CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and deployment strategies. While your primary focus will be on the DevOps landscape, a solid understanding and hands-on experience with Python will be essential for integration development of various services across our system.

Responsibilities

• Design architecture, define requirements, and plan resources/timelines
• Develop code, perform testing, and fix bugs
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines from inception to deployment, ensuring speed, reliability, and security.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize monitoring, alerting, and logging systems (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus) to ensure system health and proactively identify issues.
• Implement and improve deployment automation strategies using tools like ArgoCD for continuous delivery.
• As a part of the development team help optimize application performance, troubleshoot production issues and take part in development.
• Identify and implement best practices for security, reliability, and scalability across our systems.
• Collect and analyze metrics to ensure system performance, reliability, and identify areas for improvement.
• Write comprehensive technical documentation for infrastructure, processes, and tools.

We Expect

• Extensive experience with DevOps tools and practices (70% focus):
• Proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration and management.
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD for declarative GitOps continuous delivery.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and logging systems (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alertmanager).
• Understanding of networking concepts
• Strong knowledge of Python 3 for web development (30% focus):
• Experience developing and working with Python-based backend services.
• Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-tested Python code for automation, scripting, and tooling that interacts with web systems.
• Experience with asynchronous web frameworks (e.g., Aiohttp, FastAPI, Tornado) is a significant plus.
• Understanding of RESTful principles and API design is essential for collaborating with web developers.
• Proactive in identifying and resolving technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with Kafka or other message queuing systems.
• Experience with database administration (NoSQL, NewSQL).
• Understanding of authorization flows (cookies, JWT) and experience with authorization protocols (OAuth, SAML, LDAP).
• Experience with big data concepts and handling statistical data (especially time-series).
• A strong commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Benefits

• Medical insurance. Dental and vision plans included.
• PTO. Take time off when you need a break or aren't feeling your best.
• Family-friendly policy. Helping to balance and benefit both work and family life.
• Corporate presents. We are not limited to mugs with a logo.
• Team building events. We love to work and love to have fun.
• Financial support for participation in trainings and specialized courses.
• Office-first policy with free lunches and a rich corporate life.

Salary range 6000-8000 EUR gross, based on your experience and interview results.

At Gurtam, our mission is to play a role in shaping a safer, smarter, and more people-friendly world through the synergy of technology and creative minds. Joining us means becoming part of a close-knit global team of over 320+ individuals who share our passion. Together, we create impactful products in telematics and IoT. Time here flies quickly, fueled by challenges and achievements.