Senior DevOps Engineer

On The Spot Dev — Poland · Posted ~21 hours ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

DevOps infrastructure engineering system design production hardening high-volume data infrastructure operational excellence data pipelines distributed systems cloud infrastructure

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A global data infrastructure organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive complex infrastructure initiatives from system design through production hardening. You will work on high-volume data pipelines and distributed systems, partner with engineering leadership, and establish high standards for reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Highlights

Lead advanced infrastructure initiatives end-to-end, work on high-volume global data infrastructure, partner directly with engineering leadership, and help establish strong standards for reliability and operational excellence.

Description

About the team Vetric builds large-scale public data infrastructure. They provide data pipelines that collect, structure, and deliver high-volume public web data for companies operating in cybersecurity, public safety and digital risk protection. The systems power platforms that detect bad actors, uncover impersonation and fraud, identify coordinated manipulation, and help public safety organizations respond faster to real-world risks. Operating globally, they serve industry leaders across more than 20 countries who rely on them for scale, reliability, and depth. About the role We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team, reporting directly to our DevOps Team Leader. This role will partner with engineering leadership to drive advanced infrastructure initiatives end-to-end (from system design through production hardening), setting the technical bar for operational excellence across the company. The immediate challenge: Vetric operates a high-volume, multi-account AWS. You will solve complex delivery, scaling, and operational problems along the way. Responsibilities Drive Cloud & Migration Strategy: Work under the guidance of our DevOps Team Leader to architect and execute our migration from ECS Fargate to Kubernetes (EKS) without downtime, while maintaining our existing cloud estateAdvance Infrastructure as Code: Design and implement modern, modular IaC frameworks utilizing Terraform and OpenTofu to ensure consistent, multi-environment deploymentsArchitect Enterprise CI/CD: Evolve our delivery pipelines (GitHub Actions, OIDC federation) at scale, reducing developer friction and elevating deployment safety across dozens of servicesScale Data-Intensive Infrastructure: Oversee the performance, capacity, and resilience of our high-volume data layer (ClickHouse, ScyllaDB, DynamoDB, RDS, Redis) and event-driven messaging pipelinesEnforce Reliability & Observability: Enforce organization-wide reliability standards using open, modern telemetry stacks (OpenTelemetry, Coralogix, Grafana), ensuring on-call operations are driven by signal, not noiseBalance Growth & Governance: Make high-impact technical tradeoff decisions that balance velocity, least-privilege security, zero-trust access (Tailscale), and FinOps cost efficiency Requirements 5+ years of hands-on DevOps, Infrastructure, or Cloud Engineering experience, with real production ownership in high-throughput, data-intensive environmentsDeep Cloud Expertise: Advanced knowledge of AWS architectures, including compute, networking (VPC, DNS, segmentation), IAM, and scalability patternsProduction Kubernetes Mastery: Strong, hands-on expertise designing, running, and optimizing Kubernetes clusters (EKS) at production scale under heavy loadIaC & Automation Proficiency: Expert-level experience with Terraform and solid scripting/software engineering skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript, plus confident BashContainer & Pipeline Ownership: Deep familiarity with container workloads (ECS/Docker) and modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions) using safe rollout strategiesObservability at Scale: Proven track record of designing and operating robust observability and alerting stacks (metrics, logs, traces, SLOs).Collaborative Leadership: Pragmatic, clear communicator who thrives in a high-velocity, autonomous team environment and builds trust through sound technical judgment Nice to have Direct experience leading an ECS-to-Kubernetes migration in a production environmentDeep knowledge of EKS ecosystem tooling (Karpenter, ArgoCD/Flux, KEDA, VPC CNI)Experience operating analytical or wide-column databases at scale (ClickHouse, ScyllaDB) Why Vetric Vetric is profitable from day 1 (fully bootstrapped - means we didn’t raise any money), a fast-growing company building foundational technology. The infrastructure we build matters, so the work requires engineering discipline, ownership, and long-term thinking. As part of Vetric's broader R&D expansion, they're building their key engineering hub in Krakow that will own core systems and drive the next phase of innovation and growth. Benefits The benefit package will be discussed individually during the interview process.