DevOps Engineer

Who are we?

At Vertiv, we’re on a mission to empower the people that will power the future. From a simple swipe to life-changing medicines, from push notifications to generative AI. We design, manufacture, and service the products and solutions that keep the world connected. With $6.9 billion in sales, a strong customer base and global reach spanning nearly 70 countries, we are uniquely positioned to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.

We are now looking for a DevOps Engineer in Cluj-Napoca, Romania!

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable software delivery. The role supports cloud-native platforms across Microsoft Azure, with emphasis on Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, GitOps, observability, platform reliability, and developer enablement.

The position works closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Operations teams to establish standardized delivery and operational practices, improve platform resilience, and enable product teams to deploy and troubleshoot services with greater independence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• DevOps engineering and ownership: Design, build, maintain, and continuously improve Kubernetes-based platforms, including Azure Kubernetes Service. Define reusable platform services, deployment blueprints, and engineering standards that support multiple products and teams.
• Infrastructure as code: Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform. Convert manual or partially automated infrastructure activities into version-controlled, reproducible, and auditable deployments. Support environment recovery and reduce configuration drift.
• Continuous integration, continuous delivery, and GitOps: Design, maintain, and improve GitLab continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. Implement GitOps deployment practices including configuration promotion, deployment validation, synchronization, rollback, and release governance.
• Observability and reliability: Implement and operate monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting using technologies such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Loki, Microsoft Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and OpenTelemetry. Establish actionable service and platform health indicators.
• Cloud operations and migration: Support cloud migrations and platform modernization across Microsoft Azure. Manage and troubleshoot cloud networking, Domain Name System configuration, certificates, managed identities, role assignments, and platform dependencies.
• Security and compliance: Implement secure secrets and certificate lifecycle management using Microsoft Azure Key Vault and related services. Apply least-privilege access, role-based access control, identity governance, and secure configuration practices in partnership with Cybersecurity teams.
• Release engineering and operational readiness: Improve deployment playbooks, release documentation, rollback strategies, environment readiness checks, and post-deployment validation. Automate repeatable operational activities, including infrastructure checks and release evidence where practical.
• Incident response and problem management: Participate in production incident response, platform troubleshooting, and root cause analysis. Diagnose issues across infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, deployment configuration, and application runtime boundaries, and drive preventive actions.
• Developer enablement: Provide product teams with self-service platform capabilities, documentation, access, and technical guidance. Coach engineers on cloud, Kubernetes, deployment, observability, and operational best practices.
• Collaboration and continuous improvement: Work across product and platform teams to clarify ownership and support boundaries. Identify reliability, security, performance, cost, and delivery improvements and convert them into prioritized, measurable engineering work.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a comparable role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native solution design.
• Strong experience administering and troubleshooting Kubernetes, with Azure Kubernetes Service experience preferred.
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code engineering practices.
• Experience designing and maintaining GitLab continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Experience with GitOps deployment practices and Argo CD.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Microsoft Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and OpenTelemetry.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking, containerization, identity and access management, role-based access control, secrets management, certificates, and secure configuration practices.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and collaborate across application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create technical standards, operational playbooks, and clear incident documentation.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
• Experience with Helm, service mesh technologies, and container security.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot services built with Microsoft .NET, Structured Query Language databases, and Representational State Transfer application programming interfaces.
• Relevant Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Terraform, or DevOps certifications.
• Experience creating developer self-service capabilities and standardized platform blueprints.

SUCCESS MEASURES

• Reliable, repeatable, and auditable platform and infrastructure deployments.
• Reduced manual deployment effort, configuration drift, and avoidable release failures.
• Improved platform observability, incident detection, troubleshooting, and recovery.
• Consistent security controls for secrets, identities, certificates, and access.
• Greater developer independence through documented self-service capabilities and clear ownership boundaries.
• Continuous improvement demonstrated through measurable reliability, delivery, and operational outcomes.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• High-Performance Culture
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

• Own It
• Act With Urgency
• Foster a Customer-First Mindset
• Think Big and Execute
• Lead by Example
• Drive Continuous Improvement
• Learn and Seek Out Development

At Vertiv, we offer the stability of a global leader in a growing industry and the opportunity of a startup. We design, manufacture and service the mission-critical infrastructure technologies for vital applications in data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial environments. With $5 billion in sales, a strong customer base and global reach in nearly 70 countries, our move to establish a standalone business enables us to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to [email protected]. If you are interested in applying or learning more about this role, please visit the company’s career page located on Vertiv.com/Careers