[Remote] Senior DevOps Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fundraise Up is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own a core platform area—observability or CI/CD—from architecture and delivery through ongoing operations. The role supports engineering teams with reliable platforms, production incident response, automation, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Own one of our core platform areas end-to-end: observability (VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Graylog / VictoriaLogs, fluent bit, exporters, alerting) or CI/CD (Jenkins scripted pipelines, Harbor, Nexus, build agents) — you drive its architecture, reliability, and roadmap
• Drive technical initiatives end-to-end: gather requirements, write the design doc, decompose into tasks, implement, deliver to production, and own the operational health afterwards
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations by defining requirements, assumptions, and next steps
• Design for reliability and scale: evolve the architecture of our platforms — topology, integration points, scaling approach, and reliability model
• Support developers: deploy and monitor applications on both on-premise servers and Kubernetes (Helm), troubleshoot builds and deploys, help teams with metrics, alerts, and logs; participate in chat duty in developer support channels
• Automate away toil: repetitive operations, provisioning, and maintenance should be codified, not performed by hand
• Investigate production incidents as the senior escalation point for your area: drive resolution, lead post-mortems, implement systemic fixes. Participate in on-call rotations and raise the bar for how on-call works
• Mentor less experienced engineers through design discussions, reviews, and pairing; catch debt-inducing shortcuts at the review stage
• Use AI in all aspects of day-to-day work: researching, troubleshooting, developing

Skills

• 6+ years as a DevOps Engineer / SRE (or very close responsibilities)
• Track record of owning technical initiatives end-to-end — from requirements and technical design through production delivery
• Confident Linux skills (we use Ubuntu)
• Working knowledge of the Prometheus stack: metric types, exporters, and how alerting works — enough to navigate and extend an existing setup
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD: pipeline design, build orchestration, artifact delivery
• Containers: Docker, image building, registries
• Ansible
• Git
• Experience with Bash or Python scripting for automation and observability (writing exporters, eliminating routine work)
• Production/on-call experience: diagnosing incidents, restoring service, leading post-mortems
• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers
• Ownership and attention to detail
• Fluent Russian (required, as you'll be working in a Russian-speaking team)
• Solid hands-on experience in two or more of the areas below:
• VictoriaMetrics / Prometheus stack at scale: architecture, cardinality control, exporters, alerting infrastructure
• Log pipelines at scale: Graylog / VictoriaLogs / ELK — collection (fluent bit or similar), retention, sharding, performance
• Jenkins scripted pipelines: shared libraries, pipeline infrastructure, build agent fleets
• Container registries and artifact management: Harbor, Nexus, base images, image policies
• Operating applications on Kubernetes: Helm, workload monitoring and log delivery, deploy troubleshooting
• Grafana: dashboards as code, alerting, performance at scale
• Analytics & DS platforms: JupyterHub, Airflow, Tableau, MLflow, Airbyte — deployment, maintenance, resource limits
• Building platform around these tools to improve Quality of Life for Analytics
• Remote development environments and AI agent execution environments. E.g. Coder/Telepresence
• Bare-metal Kubernetes: provisioning, networking, scaling
• Flux and GitOps
• Terraform
• Sentry on-premise: operating self-hosted error tracking
• ClickHouse, MongoDB

Benefits

• 24 days of vacation, 18 public holidays, and sick leave in line with Georgian law.
• Private health insurance for you and your family.
• Mental health support with therapy sessions for you and your partner.
• Sports reimbursement to help you stay active and feel your best.
• Fully remote work.
• Generous home office stipend to set up a comfortable, productive workspace.
• Coworking reimbursement for days when you'd rather work alongside other people.
• Annual professional development stipend to support your growth.
• English learning programs to help you communicate with confidence across our global team.
• Charitable giving program with company matching for your donations to registered non-profits.

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