Job Title
Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)
Description

VALEO IT is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with solid technical, automation, and programming experience.

We provide our customers with a flexible, open, and standards-based cloud platform for global data exchange and a development toolchain platform to facilitate collaboration among multiple parties in the automotive industry.

Responsibilities
  • Platform Operations Maintain the stability of EKS clusters and integrated services through maintenance, monitoring, metrics, and rapid response to alerts and reported errors.
  • CI/CD Responsibility Design and maintain end-to-end pipelines (primarily GitHub Actions; Jenkins as needed) for platform and workload deployments.
  • Large-scale Configuration Management Managing app/platform configurations across multiple AWS accounts and regions (global presence, including China).
  • Building Observability Creation of diagnostics, dashboards, logs/metrics/traces, and actionable alerting for rapid incident detection and remediation.
  • Security & Compliance: Implementation of secret management, key rotation, policy enforcement, and cloud access monitoring; establishment and maintenance of guardrails.
  • Collaboration with Developers: Designing operational, reliability, and scalability aspects; creating clear runbooks and developer guides.
  • Automation first: Replace manual tasks with code; optimize deployment paths and further develop infrastructure for scaling and performance.
  • Incident Response & Recovery Analysis, containment, leading root cause analyses/post-mortems, and timely implementation of follow-up actions.
  • Capacity & Performance Planning Tracking KPIs/SLOs, performing capacity analysis, and providing hardening and upgrade recommendations.
Qualifications
  • Cloud & Orchestration: AWS/AWS China, EKS/Kubernetes, Docker; Understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
  • Infrastructure as Code & Automation Terraform/Terragrunt; Ansible as needed; Helm for packaging; Git for version control and GitOps workflows.
  • CI/CD & Release Engineering: Branching/Merging Strategies and Artifact Management with GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins.
  • Network & Traffic: Solid Linux/AWS networking knowledge (VPC, Routing, Security Groups/NACLs), DNS, Load Balancing (ALB/NLB), Kubernetes Ingress; Proxies (NGINX, HAProxy).
  • Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Loki (or comparable tools); building meaningful dashboards and alerts.
  • Databases Administration of SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB).
  • Programming & Scripting: Python and Bash; Java knowledge is a plus.
  • Governance Practical experience in incident, problem, and change management in production environments.
  • Security Kubernetes Security (NetworkPolicy, Kyverno), Secrets Management, and Policy Enforcement.
  • Additional Tools (Nice-to-have): Experience with GitHub Enterprise, Gitea, Artifactory, Confluence, Jira, Grafana, Jenkins, Vault.
Experience
  • Experience Over 5 years of operating large-scale production systems (load balancing, monitoring, configuration management).
  • Automation mindset You identify recurring tasks and consistently automate them.
  • DevOps/GitOps Mentality: You treat infrastructure as code and prefer transparent, repeatable workflows.
  • Performance Focus You proactively identify bottlenecks and performance degradations.
  • Data-driven operations You are convinced that audits, KPIs, and SLOs drive continuous improvement.
  • Team player You work cross-functionally, proactively share knowledge, and openly give and receive feedback.
  • Clear communication: Excellent written and verbal skills for technical and procedural documentation.
  • Training Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Contacts

VALEO IT SERVICES SRL
Salcâmilor Street No. 14-16 | 300425 Timișoara | Romania
Email: career@valeo-it.com

Employment Type
Full-time
Start of employment
immediately
Length of Employment
Indefinite
Job Location
Salcâmilor Street No. 14-16, Timișoara, Timis, 300756, Romania
Remote work fromRomania
Date posted
August 19, 2025
PDF Export
Export as PDF