Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Position

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

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and automated cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate closely with development, QA, and operations teams to drive deployment reliability, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence across a multi-cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Cloud: Design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure across Azure (AKS) and GCP (GKE).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Build, maintain, and optimize scalable infrastructure using IaC best practices (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Kubernetes Orchestration: Deploy, manage, scale, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
• CI/CD Automation: Develop and maintain Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, establishing reusable pipeline templates to streamline development.
• GitOps & Deployment: Automate application deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and continuous delivery workflows using Argo CD.
• Security & Compliance: Integrate modern security best practices into DevOps workflows, covering deployment pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
• Networking: Manage complex networking components, including ingress controllers (NGINX), load balancing, and service routing.
• Collaboration & Support: Partner with software engineering teams to optimize release processes, resolve production issues, and troubleshoot infrastructure bottlenecks.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of proven experience as a DevOps Engineer in production environments.
• Cloud Expertise: Strong experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services, specifically AKS.
• Containerization: Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform and/or Terragrunt.
• GitOps & CI/CD: Hands-on experience implementing GitOps workflows using Argo CD and building Azure DevOps YAML-based pipelines.
• SecDevOps: Experience integrating security tooling and practices (e.g., WAF, SAST/SCA, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, container/IaC security).
• OS & Scripting: Strong proficiency with Linux environments and scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
• Networking: Solid understanding of networking concepts, including Ingress Controllers (e.g., NGINX) and Load Balancing.
• Core Competencies: Exceptional troubleshooting skills, a positive and service-oriented mindset, a fast learner, and the ability to execute independently.

Nice to Have

• Experience managing workloads in GCP (GKE).
• Experience leveraging or integrating AI-powered engineering, automation, or operational tools to optimize workflows.

We Offer

• Regular salary reviews based on performance.
• Corporate events: webinars, offline parties, and meetups.
• Internal Mobility Program.
• Tailored education path (including full access to Udemy, certifications, etc.).
• 25 paid days off: 20 business days of vacation per calendar year + 5 undocumented sick leave days.
• Additional health insurance.
• 100% company-covered Multisport card, with discounts available for family members.

About the Company

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.

Since expanding to Bulgaria in 2022, we’ve been building a fast-growing team that thrives on learning, collaboration, and innovation. Join us on this exciting journey and help shape the future of our delivery center.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.