Senior DevOps Engineer: Proxmox & Ceph Owner, FinOps

Adapty

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Adapty is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our Proxmox and Ceph platform end to end and drive cost optimization across multi-cloud environments. You will work hands-on with bare metal and cloud providers (OVH, Hetzner, AWS, GCP) and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, and GitLab CI.

You will lead capacity planning, incident response, and the split of development workloads into a dedicated cluster, while ensuring production remains fully online and scalable.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years working with infrastructure and physical hardware
  • 5+ years running Kubernetes and cloud platforms in production
  • Hands-on with bare metal and providers like OVH and Hetzner, plus AWS and/or GCP
  • Strong with IaC (Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitLab CI)
  • FinOps experience and cost-awareness
  • You take problems to root cause and fix it
  • You say things directly – risks arrive early, not after incidents

Responsibilities

  • Own our Proxmox and Ceph platform end to end - capacity, upgrades, performance and incident response
  • Run infrastructure across OVH, Hetzner and bare metal, alongside workloads in AWS and GCP
  • Drive resource rightsizing: find where we overpay, size it correctly, and prove the saving in the bills
  • Lead the separation of development workloads into a dedicated cluster, without downtime for production
  • Keep everything as code - Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD and GitLab CI, with no manual changes in production
  • Own reliability: on-call, incident response, root cause analysis and the runbooks that follow
  • Support the data layer our product runs on - PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Aerospike

Skills

Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
ArgoCD
GitLab CI
FinOps
Incident response
Cost optimization
Root cause analysis

Tools

Proxmox
Ceph
AWS
GCP
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
Aerospike

Job description

Adapty is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our Proxmox and Ceph platform end to end and drive cost optimization across multi-cloud environments. You will work hands-on with bare metal and cloud providers (OVH, Hetzner, AWS, GCP) and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, and GitLab CI.

You will lead capacity planning, incident response, and the split of development workloads into a dedicated cluster, while ensuring production remains fully online and scalable.

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