Lead DevOps Engineer

Neklo is a software development company delivering high-quality web, mobile, and Magento development services. We build and maintain scalable, high-load projects, custom software solutions, and cloud-native infrastructures for global clients.

We’re seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead our infrastructure initiatives across AWS.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and architecture of AWS-based infrastructure (AWS basics which is EKS, EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, Load Balancing, IAM)
• Advanced AWS infrastructure management strongly required - AWS CLI knowledge, good understanding of AWS cost management and Cost Explorer, experience with Redshift, Aurora and DMS, advanced Load Balancing, Open Search and ElastiCach, CloudFront with WAF. You have to understand security and compliance services like Inspector, GuardDuty and CloudTrail. Also Kendra, Kafka and Kinesis
• Manage Aurora PostgreSQL databases, run queries, perform backup and restore operations
• Maintain and improve next non-AWS self managed products: Apache Kafka, Elastic stack (ELK). Cloud Flare DNS management
• Work on AI enablement: do not think we are looking someone for prompting. We are not making prompts. DevOPS team responsible for API connectivity, plugins, connectors and compute facilities support as well as N8N configuration and management
• Manage code and develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using modern tools (GitHub, Jenkins)
• Build, maintain, and enhance Kubernetes/EKS clusters and containerized environments
• Automate provisioning/configuration using Terraform, Ansible
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Ensure security, reliability, and cost efficiency across the cloud environment
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and prevent recurrence
• Maintain clear infrastructure documentation (Confluence/Jira)
• Mentor engineers and contribute to DevOps best practices

Requirements:

• Strong, hands-on AWS expertise (around all services mentioned above)
• Apache Kafka, ELK, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Solid Linux systems and networking background
• Production experience with Kubernetes/EKS and Docker
• Proficiency with Terraform
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management
• Scripting experience (Bash, Python, or Go)
• Intermediate+ English level

Nice to have:
Experience with monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK)

*Вакансия является планируемой к созданию и замещению (перспективной).