Senior/Principal DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Softeta is a software engineering partner for finance, energy, industrial, and other high-stakes sectors. We specialize in building and modernizing backend-heavy, integration-critical systems where speed, accuracy, and reliability are non-negotiable. With 100+ AI and custom software experts across engineering hubs in Lithuania and Poland, we embed ourselves directly into client operations — delivering custom software, automation, and AI where they drive the most value. Clients such as SEB, NordVPN, and CarVertical trust us with systems that serve millions of users globally. We strive for excellence, that’s why we created Cobble – Softeta’s own AI-native development workflow, built by our engineers, that standardizes how developers work with AI agents from requirement to working code.

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to serve as a technical pillar for an infrastructure team. You’ll be responsible for making development ecosystem faster, safer, and more reliable—from bare-metal automation and multi-cluster Kubernetes orchestration to secure GitOps workflows. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure puzzles and bridging the gap between platform security, automated delivery, and edge hardware, we’d love to talk.

🏢 About Softeta

Softeta is a software engineering partner for finance, energy, industrial, and other high-stakes sectors. We specialize in building and modernizing backend-heavy, integration-critical systems where speed, accuracy, and reliability are non-negotiable. With 100+ AI and custom software experts across engineering hubs in Lithuania and Poland, we embed ourselves directly into client operations — delivering custom software, automation, and AI where they drive the most value. Clients such as SEB, NordVPN, and CarVertical trust us with systems that serve millions of users globally. We strive for excellence, that’s why we created Cobble – Softeta’s own AI-native development workflow, built by our engineers, that standardizes how developers work with AI agents from requirement to working code.

🎯 The Role

You’ll be responsible for making development ecosystem faster, safer, and more reliable—from bare-metal automation and multi-cluster Kubernetes orchestration to secure GitOps workflows. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure puzzles and bridging the gap between platform security, automated delivery, and edge hardware, we’d love to talk.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Automate bare-metal Linux server provisioning, updates, and configuration.
• Deploy, scale, and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across environments.
• Build CI/CD and GitOps workflows (Argo CD, Helm) for version-controlled deployments.
• Secure the platform using RBAC, secrets management (Vault), PKI, and OIDC/SAML identity controls.
• Maintain platform monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Integrate Kubernetes-enabled Bosch and IoT devices into the central ecosystem.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and drive platform automation standards.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Linux system administration, including installation, configuration, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with bare metal server provisioning and operating system deployment.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes cluster installation, administration, troubleshooting, scaling, and workload management.
• Experience with Git, declarative configuration management, and GitOps principles.
• Hands-on experience with Argo CD and Kubernetes-based application delivery.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation.
• Experience with Docker, containerization, Helm charts, and Kubernetes manifests.
• Experience with Ansible or similar infrastructure automation and configuration management tools.
• Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, logging solutions, and alerting mechanisms.
• Understanding of Kubernetes networking, including Services, Ingress, and Network Policies.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and application security, RBAC, secrets management, and least-privilege access principles.
• Familiarity with PKI, TLS/mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, and cert-manager.
• Understanding of enterprise identity and access management, including OIDC/SAML, SSO, MFA, and service-account security.
• Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, External Secrets Operator, or equivalent secrets management solutions.
• Experience with or willingness to work on Kubernetes-enabled devices and IoT platform integration.
• Familiarity with Azure or AWS.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Diverse and technically challenging projects.
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid or remote workplace model.
• Flexible schedule and an Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Technical equipment that you can choose.

🎁 Benefits

• Diverse and technically challenging projects.
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid or remote workplace model.
• Flexible schedule and an Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Technical equipment that you can choose.
• Salary: For employees: 6000 EUR to 8000 EUR monthly (gross). For contractors: 38 EUR to 50 EUR per hour (plus VAT).

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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