DevOps Engineer

For more than 20 years, STAR7 has served its customers as a leader in the product information sector. Support for product and process engineering, creating and managing technical content, as well as marketing, translation, printing and virtual experience: STAR7’s range of services means it can assist its customers throughout the product life-cycle – from design to aftersales. The hallmark of STAR7 has always been an approach capable of combining specific know-how, technology and a holistic vision to offer the best possible solutions to the needs of customers and the global market. This approach has seen STAR7 strike major partnerships with leading international companies, establishing it as a
reliable and credible global partner. STAR7 is part of the STAR Group network.

STAR7 Albania is looking for a talented and passionate DevOps Engineer.

DevOps Engineer responsibilities:

• Design, maintain, and scale Azure-based infrastructure supporting production machine translation portals, LLM APIs, and backend services
• Build and operate containerized services with Docker, ensuring consistent environments across development, staging, and production
• Own GitLab CI/CD pipelines end-to-end: merge, build, test, deployment, rollback, and release coordination
• Deploy and operate FastAPI backend services and Vue.js frontends, including configuration, scaling, and runtime monitoring
• Configure and maintain Traefik as the reverse proxy layer: routing rules, SSL/TLS certificates, service discovery, and traffic policies
• Administer Keycloak for authentication, authorization, identity federation, and SSO across internal and customer-facing services
• Operate MySQL in production: schema management, backups, replication, performance tuning, and recovery procedures
• Implement infrastructure-as-code and environment standardization to make deployments reproducible and auditable
• Build observability into the platform using Grafana, centralized logging, and metrics pipelines
• Strengthen platform reliability, security posture, and disaster recovery procedures
• Manage secrets, API credentials, and secure inter-service communication
• Partner with ML/NLP engineers to deploy inference services, model APIs, and GPU-backed workloads
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and operational costs across environments
• Troubleshoot production incidents spanning deployment, networking, performance, and infrastructure layers

DevOps Engineer required skills:

• Strong production experience with Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Linux system administration, and Azure
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating FastAPI services and Vue.js applications
• Solid working knowledge of Traefik, Keycloak, and MySQL in production environments
• Experience with Grafana, observability stacks, and centralized logging systems
• Experience with container orchestration and service scaling patterns
• Solid grounding in networking, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and API gateways
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Track record managing production environments and release pipelines for live services
• Strong understanding of security best practices for APIs and cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure, inference services, or GPU workloads is a plus
• Experience in localization, translation technologies, or language services is a plus
• Familiarity with data lakes