Senior DevOps

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is the 3rd largest social discovery company in the world, uniting 60+ brands with 500 million users. We solve the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection by transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. Our portfolio includes online communication platforms focusing on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming - Dating.com, DateMyAge, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, Kiseki, and others.

SDG invests in IT startups around the world. Our investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Clubhouse, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia.edu, and many others.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals specializing in the creation and development of globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of 1200 professionals and digital nomads works all over the world.

Our teams of digital nomads work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland, Latvia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and many other locations.

In August 2024, we achieved Great Place to Work US Certification™! This achievement reflects our core belief that a truly exceptional workplace is built on trust, pride, and camaraderie—not just great perks.

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to take part in the transformation of CI/CD workflows across multiple products, each comprising diverse legacy components.

This role involves introducing industry-leading DevOps tools and technologies - driving the adoption of modern practices and methodologies within our community. The role extends to providing ongoing support to existing CI/CD pipelines, and optimising ephemeral and pre-production environments for efficiency and reliability.

We expect from you:

• DevOps Methodologies:
  - Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, and CI/CD principles.
  - Experience in cross-functional collaboration, automation-first mindset, and enabling developer self-service.
  
• Kubernetes (Bare-metal & On-premise):
  - Strong experience operating Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal and on-premise infrastructure.
  - Confident in troubleshooting networking, storage, and performance issues in self-managed K8s environments.
  - Familiarity with tools like Kubeadm, Calico, Cilium, OpenEBS, MetalLB, and KubeVirt is a plus.
  
• GitLab CI/CD:
  - Proven ability to design, optimize, and maintain complex CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
  - Experience with GitLab runners in Kubernetes and on dedicated RHEL-based hosts.
  - Knowledge of ephemeral environments, pipeline caching strategies, and secure secrets management in GitLab.
  
• Linux System Administration (RHEL-based):
  - Solid expertise in managing and hardening RHEL-based systems (e.g., CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux).
  - Understanding of package management via dnf, custom repo management, and OS lifecycle practices.
  
• Observability & Monitoring:
  - Practical experience with observability stacks such as:
  - OpenSearch for log aggregation and analysis.
  - Grafana for metrics, alerting, and dashboard creation.
  - Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics or similar time-series backends is a plus.
  - Ability to correlate logs, metrics, and traces to detect and resolve issues proactively.
  
• Toolset:
  - Helm templating (Required)
  - Terraform (Required)
  - Ansible (Required)
  - ArgoCD application deployment and management (Nice to Have)
  - Gitlab CI
  
• Shell Scripting & Automation:
  - Advanced Bash scripting skills for system automation, infrastructure provisioning, and service configuration.
  - Experience integrating shell scripts into CI/CD workflows and system health checks.
  
• Hands-on Development Insight:
  - Basic understanding of the developer workflow and lifecycle.
  - Experience working alongside developers to improve productivity, feedback loops, and deployment reliability.

Nice to have:

• In-depth knowledge of networking protocols and technologies.
• Experience in administering Windows environments.

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• Vacation 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000