Senior / Principal DevOps (GCP)

AltexSoft; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work available

Medical expense reimbursement

Mentorship and career development

Job summary

AltexSoft is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead a greenfield OTA platform, building a multi-brand merchant system and automating cloud infrastructure from scratch.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted DevOps, modern tooling, and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines across services. Remote-friendly with strong growth in a tech-driven environment in Georgia, USA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience.
• Hands-on GCP and Kubernetes administration experience.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and monorepo setups.
• Terraform IaC expertise to build cloud foundations.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain GCP cloud foundation and landing zone with Terraform.
• Design standardised multi-service CI/CD pipelines for a monorepo.
• Implement Argo CD/Rollouts and integrate with GitLab CI.
• Configure Kubernetes workloads, ingress, and security practices.
• Set up observability with OpenTelemetry and Elastic APM.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Argo CD

Argo Rollouts

OpenTelemetry

Elastic APM

CI/CD security

AI-assisted automation

Tools

Argo Rollouts

SonarQube

CI/CD tooling

OpenTelemetry

Job description

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a greenfield project for a growing OTA (Online Travel Agency) that is evolving into a multi-brand Merchant-of-Record platform. The platform will integrate with major hotel suppliers, including Expedia Group Rapid and Priceline Partner Solutions, and will support the full hotel booking journey from search to checkout.

We also follow an AI‑first engineering approach, so the ability to effectively use modern AI tools in daily DevOps work — for research, troubleshooting, infrastructure/code generation, documentation, and automation — is expected.

You Have

• 5+ years of commercial experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Practical experience with: GKE / Kubernetes Cloud SQL Memorystore Pub/Sub Secret Manager Artifact Registry Cloud Storage Strong Terraform experience and hands‑on Infrastructure as Code expertise.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, preferably for multi‑service or monorepo‑based applications.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes administration and operations.
• Experience with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts / GitOps.
• Experience implementing and supporting observability solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry and Elastic APM.
• Experience with SonarQube, quality gates, and security/dependency scanning. Good understanding of CI/CD, deployment strategies, infrastructure security, and cloud networking.
• Hands‑on experience using AI tools in software engineering or DevOps workflows, such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar tools.
• Understanding of how to use AI tools effectively for code/configuration generation and review, troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and technical research.
• Experience working with greenfield projects and building DevOps infrastructure from scratch.
• Ability to independently investigate technical issues, make infrastructure decisions, and communicate technical trade‑offs.
• Good spoken and written English.

Would be a plus

• Previous hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Keycloak or other self‑hosted IAM solutions.
• Experience deploying and operating .NET / ASP.NET Core microservices in Kubernetes.
• Experience with Argo Rollouts and progressive delivery strategies.
• Experience with performance/load testing and infrastructure sizing.
• Experience in the travel, OTA, e‑commerce, or payments domain.
• Experience building AI‑assisted automation or DevOps workflows.
• Experience creating custom prompts, agents, or workflows to automate DevOps activities.

You Are Going To

• Build and maintain the GCP cloud foundation and landing zone using Terraform.
• Provision and configure GCP services including GKE, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Memorystore for Valkey, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, and Cloud Storage.
• Design and implement standardised GitLab CI/CD pipelines for a multi‑service monorepo.
• Create reusable GitLab CI templates and implement selective builds for individual services.
• Set up and maintain dev → stage → production deployment and promotion flows.
• Implement Argo CD and Argo Rollouts and define their integration with the GitLab CI pipeline.
• Configure and manage Kubernetes infrastructure, including ingress, node pools/Autopilot ComputeClasses, and Workload Identity Federation.
• Set up NGINX Ingress and support Kubernetes cluster operations. Implement the OpenTelemetry → Elastic APM observability pipeline.
• Configure SonarQube quality gates, security/dependency scanning, and related CI/CD integrations.
• Support Docker-in-Docker runners for integration testing.
• Deploy and support application workloads based on .NET 10 / ASP.NET Core microservices.
• Use AI‑powered development and DevOps tools to improve productivity, automate repetitive tasks, investigate issues, generate and review infrastructure/configuration code, and accelerate technical research.
• Participate in technical discussions and help finalize open platform decisions, including messaging strategy, SonarQube edition, GitLab licensing, and infrastructure sizing based on load testing.

We offer

Work-life Balance

• Possibility to work remotely

Health Care

• Reimbursement of medical expenses
• Online morning exercise

Education

• Compensation for trainings, seminars, conferences
• Free access to the Pluralsight and ACloudGuru knowledge base
• Access to the AltexSoft library with top‑notch materials
• A mentor for a probation period
• Engagement in our Mentorship Hub program as a mentor or a mentee to foster professional growth and development

Development

• Horizontally — master new technologies at internal courses
• Vertically — choose your own career path through Competency trees

Recognition Program

• All your activities are marked by points that can be exchanged for gifts to fit any taste.

Contact our Talent Acquisition Specialist Nataliia Tarnopolska [e-mail]

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Come along if you share our vision

• We were founded in 2007.Employer of the Year (2014, 2017, 2019).
• The AI Ukraine conference and the Know Your Onions meetups organizer.
• R&D centers in Ukraine (Kharkiv, Kremenchuk, Lviv) and Georgia (Tbilisi). We employ more than 300 people.