Senior DevOps Engineer - Highload, Cloud & Data-Intensive Systems (EU / Remote)

Talantir; France; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work format

Job summary

Talantir provides a mature, long-term platform with distributed services for analytics, APIs, and transaction monitoring. The team handles extensive data volumes across production systems, with strong emphasis on stability, observability and automation.

The role focuses on operations of production services, infrastructure automation, and continuous improvement through IaC, CI/CD, and monitoring. It includes on-call responsibilities with rare after-hours incidents and an opportunity to influence

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience operating Linux/Ubuntu infrastructure and production services.
• Strong understanding of networking and troubleshooting.
• Kubernetes (cluster operations), Rancher, Docker / containerd.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform.
• Monitoring with Prometheus / Thanos / Telegraf / Grafana / Sentry.
• CI/CD with Jenkins.
• Automation with Bash, Python.
• Experience with LVM.

Responsibilities

• Operation of production services and infrastructure (server provisioning/decommissioning, updates, replacements, performance troubleshooting)
• Support and development of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible)
• Monitoring, alerting, backups, and regular recovery checks
• Development of service and infrastructure automation
• Development of CI/CD and release procedures
• Incident diagnosis and resolution, support for product teams
• Traffic analytics, bot and attack protection tools
• Responsibility for 24/7 platform stability

Skills

Linux/Ubuntu

Networking

Kubernetes

Rancher

Docker / containerd

Ansible

Terraform

Monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana)

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Bash

Python

LVM

Tools

Node.js

php-fpm

Lua

Tarantool

Go

Ruby

PHP

WireGuard

OpenVPN

Job description

About The Project

The team develops and maintains distributed services around analytics, APIs, and transaction monitoring. The systems process very large volumes of data — terabytes of storage, trillions of records, continuously growing load.

Infrastructure: 100 servers (bare metal + VPS) active use of IaC Kubernetes clusters in production focus on stability, observability, and automation.

The project is long-term — not a hype startup, but a mature product with real users.

What The Work Looks Like

• 60% — operations and incidents (including helping teams)
• 20% — infrastructure automation
• 20% — prototyping, improvements, technical initiatives

There is on-call responsibility, but normally after-hours incidents happen 2-3 times a year, not every week.

Responsibilities

• Operation of production services and infrastructure (server provisioning/decommissioning, updates, replacements, performance troubleshooting)
• Support and development of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible: modules, roles, standards, reviews)
• Monitoring, alerting, backups, and regular recovery checks
• Development of service and infrastructure automation
• Development of CI/CD and release procedures
• Incident diagnosis and resolution, support for product teams
• Traffic analytics, bot and attack protection tools
• Responsibility for 24/7 platform stability

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience operating Linux/Ubuntu infrastructure and production services
• Strong understanding of networking and troubleshooting
• Kubernetes (cluster operations), Rancher, Docker / containerd
• Hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform
• Monitoring: Prometheus / Thanos / Telegraf / Grafana / Sentry
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Automation: Bash, Python
• Experience working with LVM

Nice to have

• Experience working with blockchain nodes
• Diagnosis and tuning of ClickHouse and MongoDB in high-load clusters

Providers

Hetzner / OVHcloud

Cloudflare (edge, DDoS), experience with AWS

Handling abuse tickets with hosting providers

Technology stack

• VPN: WireGuard, OpenVPN
• Databases: ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL
• Applications: Node.js (pm2), php-fpm, Lua, Tarantool
• Supporting services: Go (operatorSDK), Ruby, Node.js, PHP

Benefits

• 5,000 - 8,000 € net
• Format: office / hybrid / remote
• Location: Spain (Barcelona and suburbs) or remote (CET ±2)
• Full-time
• Opportunity to genuinely influence architecture and processes
• Mature engineering team and reasonable expectations