Senior DevOps Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time in Bulgaria.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Our client's infrastructure powers millions of live sports events worldwide - from raw video capture at remote venues to real-time stream delivery and ML-driven monetization. As a DevOps & Platform Engineer, you will be a core contributor to the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our cloud platform.

You'll work inside a self-service, pod-based engineering model where your job is to build the platforms, pipelines, and guardrails that let product teams ship independently - at high velocity and with full operational ownership. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact individual contributor role with a clear technical growth path.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain GitOps-based delivery pipelines (ArgoCD) so product pods deploy safely without DevOps intervention
• Design and evolve self-service tooling - golden paths, deployment templates, scaffolding - that reduce pod dependency on the platform team
• Implement deployment safety guardrails: config diffing, change ownership, rollout strategies, and audit trails
• Adopt industry-leading AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, automation, and operational delivery

Requirements:

• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
• Production-grade Kubernetes experience: EKS/GKE, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), service mesh, multi-tenant cluster operations, resource management
• Deep hands-on GitOps and CI/CD: ArgoCD or Flux, Kustomize/Helm, rollout strategies, deployment safety, change ownership, audit trails
• AWS platform depth: EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM/IRSA, VPC networking, RDS, cost optimization levers
• Platform engineering orientation - you think in platforms and self-service, not one-off scripts or manual runbooks
• AI-first approach - actively uses AI tools to accelerate development and operations; not just aware of them, but fluent
• Ownership mentality - own outcomes end-to-end, escalate only when truly blocked, and translate infrastructure complexity into business impact
• People leadership skills, including mentoring and developing engineers, as well as conducting technical interviews

Desirable:

• GCP experience (GKE, GCS, Cloud Run) or hybrid multi-cloud operations
• Video streaming infrastructure: HLS, RTMP, CDN optimization, live video pipelines
• FinOps / cost optimization: cost attribution, right-sizing, storage lifecycle policies
• Development background (Python, Go, Node.js, or similar)

What’s in it for you?

• Regular salary reviews based on performance
• Corporate events: webinars, offline parties, and meetups
• Internal Mobility Program
• Tailored education path (including full access to Udemy, certifications, etc.)
• 25 paid days off: 20 business days of vacation per calendar year + 5 undocumented sick leave days
• Additional health insurance
• 100% company-covered Multisport card, with discounts available for family members

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

Since expanding to Bulgaria in 2022, we’ve been building a fast-growing team that thrives on learning, collaboration, and innovation. Join us on this exciting journey and help shape the future of our delivery center.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.