Senior DevOps Engineer

Job description

Tribe, a brand-new payments processor, is looking to continue its rapid expansion in the payments market. Tribe is a group of people that have come together with the singular purpose of making the world of payments simple and accessible. Join our ever-growing Tribe Payments team as a DevOps Engineer and help us change the way this market perceives payments. ### What You Would Do: - **Own and improve our apps running on Kubernetes platform**: Build and maintain **Helm charts** for our services Standardize deployment patterns, configuration, and release strategies Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of workloads running on k8s - **Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab**: Design flexible pipelines for build, test, security scanning, and deploymentIntroduce best practices (versioning, feature flags, rollbacks, approvals, etc.) Continuously improve speed, reliability, and developer experience - **Set up and improve observability**: Use **Elasticsearch** , **Prometheus** (and related tooling) to create useful dashboards & alerts Help teams understand logs, metrics, and traces — turn data into decisions Build early-warning detection frameworks and validation/simulation practices to surface failure modes before production - **Research & experiment**: Investigate new tools, patterns, and AWS services; compare alternatives POC and validate ideas before rolling them out to production Bring proposals to the team, explain trade-offs and lead implementation Apply new learning specifically to solve harder reliability/scalability/automation problems and show progress through delivered outcomes. - **Document and share knowledge**: Write clear runbooks, architecture/infra documentation, and “how-to” guides Make sure others can understand, reproduce, and maintain what you build Prevent long-term system “decay” by simplifying complex setups and institutionalizing sustainable best practices. - **Collaborate across teams**: Work closely with developers, security, product and operations Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention work Align infrastructure decisions with product goals, cost efficiency, and deployment impact; proactively flag technical risks affecting availability/performance ### You have - **Previous work experience as a DevOps Engineer** (senior-level, owning and improving production systems) - Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and GitLab, understanding of CI/CD, logging and monitoring processes, including: Operate AWS environment. Building and maintaining **Kubernetes Helm charts** for production workloads Designing, implementing, and maintaining GitLab **pipelines** for complex applications Undeniable Linux experience and skills Solid knowledge of web servers, networking basics, and bash scripting. - Bonus points if you have experience with MySQL (or other databases) at scale PHP (Symfony framework) Familiarity with some of: **Message Brokers, logging and monitoring systems** - Fluent communication skills in English; - Working knowledge of incorporating robust code security practices to safeguard the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of software systems including but not limited to OWASP secure coding guidelines; - Effective collaboration skills, capable of working well in a team environment that values security and quality. - **Strong documentation mindset** – you naturally document architecture, decisions, and procedures so others can follow and maintain them. - A genuine interest in **researching**, testing, and introducing new ideas and tools, not just “keeping the lights on”. ### We offer - **High-performing teams.** At Tribe we think outside the box, take ownership of what we do, aim high and deliver uncompromising quality. You will be surrounded by a smart and high-performing team with a collaborative mindset. - **Health & Wellness.** Health insurance package from the first day that you will join our team. Enjoyable daily lunches & Pizza Fridays. Variety of healthy snacks, fresh fruits, and drinks in the office. - **Level up.** We constantly explore the possibilities within our industry and in the technology we build. To keep your minds curious we offer: Tribe Learning Days - time freely spent on self-education; Internal and external training; Tribe Learning library stocked with tech books; Learning & Development budget for conferences, training, podcasts, online courses, and professional certifications. - **Work-life balance.** To increase your productivity we are offering a hybrid work model - you can plan your work partly from the office or remotely from your home. You can combine your work & vacations, so be ready to plan workations. For 2 weeks per year, you can work from anywhere - and we mean anywhere! Extra days off for your health and birthday day off! - **Tribe Vibe & Culture.** At Tribe, we foster a positive and fun working environment, which is called a “tribe vibe”. Even if we work hard, we do not forget to party as well: be ready for legendary tribe fest and winter fest parties, events for the tribe community every month, and regular team building. - **Office & Environment.** Open, creative, and fun working environment in the brand new BLC2 business center with provided parking places. To relax your mind and body - table foosball, table tennis, and massage chair. If you mostly work from home - we offer a home office budget to make your workplace comfortable. - The salary range for this position is 3300- 7000 euros/monthly gross. The salary proposal depends on your competencies and seniority level.