Smartcat is hiring a
Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Smartcat, a dynamic Series C company growing at 130% YoY, to support and enhance product infrastructure, improve stability and reliability of systems, expand monitoring and alerting systems, load balancing, and scaling. As a member of the team, you will drive changes in how the global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide.

Requirements

• Proven experience in building, managing, and troubleshooting distributed infrastructure and networks
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Infrastructure as Code) implementation, and multi-branch deployment
• Strong understanding of container-based technologies and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), with the ability to deploy and manage them directly or via Helm Charts
• Experience with configuration management tools and a deep understanding of IaC tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)
• First-line support experience for scalable cloud applications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix system administration skills
• Experience in setting up and maintaining monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Grafana)
• Experience in Incident Management within production environments
• Familiarity with document-oriented databases (e.g., MongoDB) is a plus
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Ability to thrive in a highly intense startup environment, demonstrating extreme focus, urgency, and persistence
• Integrity, full commitment, and a strong sense of ownership

Responsibilities

• Ensure production and testing environments are consistently operational
• Support and enhance monitoring and logging systems
• Improve and maintain product infrastructure: Define and track metrics for CI/CD. Enhance CI/CD pipeline reliability. Identify bottlenecks and optimize build and deployment processes for speed
• The ultimate goal is to modernize, economize, and make our deployment resilient, maintenance-friendly, and continuously monitored