Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Position

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Brazil. 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, you'll become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering the experience of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure (compute, networking, CI/CD, observability)
• Drive developer experience improvements - reducing friction, removing toil, and making the "paved path" the easy path
• Lead triage on production issues: dig into logs, write scripts to analyze data when needed, and drive incidents to resolution
• Shape and advance our infrastructure architecture with a bias toward simplicity, scalability, and ease of use for the engineers building on it
• Use AI tools deliberately and effectively as a force multiplier in your own work, and help others on the team do the same
• Partner closely with engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into infrastructure decisions

Requirements

• Experience managing a Kubernetes (or similar) cluster - not just deploying applications onto one as a runtime. You should have configured, operated, or maintained a cluster yourself (node pools, upgrades, scaling, networking, etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or an equivalent like Pulumi/CloudFormation) - you've written and maintained IaC yourself
• Solid engineering fundamentals and a real point of view on what makes infrastructure and architecture simple, scalable, and maintainable - and the judgment to make good trade-offs
• Comfort owning production triage: reading logs, forming hypotheses, writing a script when that's the fastest path to an answer, and driving to root cause under some pressure
• Combination of infrastructure/DevOps and Python/software engineering skillsets
• Clear, effective communicator, in writing and out loud - able to explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and non-infra stakeholders
• Genuinely AI-forward: you already use AI tools to move faster and better, not just because it's expected
• A collaborative partner to the broader engineering org - this role succeeds by making other engineers more effective, not by working in isolation

Nice to Have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly GKE Autopilot or a comparable managed Kubernetes environment
• Experience with gRPC, Postgres at scale, or service-oriented architectures
• Experience scaling infrastructure or DX tooling at a growth-stage company
• Experience in a regulated environment (HIPAA or similar)
• Prior ownership of a paved-path or internal platform initiative

We Offer

• Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and mental health programs, 5 undocumented sick-leave days per year
• Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events
• Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and local bank holidays
• Flexibility: 100% remote work mode
• Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally, and fulfill your potential
• Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
• Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company, and regular team-building events

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.

As we expand into Latin America, every Ciklumer is helping to shape our story. Collaborate with seasoned experts and make a global impact backed by two decades of industry leadership.

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.