DevOps Engineer

About us:

A team of creative people who create digital products differently, maintaining a balance between the interests of the client, the needs of the user, and the capabilities of the studio.

We specialize in creative, web games, interactives, 2D motion videos for large businesses, mainly in the B2C segment. Promo mechanics, corporate motivation programs, web games, chatbots — that's what we create. A distinctive feature of everything we do is a tasty, meaningful product that meets the client's tasks. A product for the real world, sometimes with a flourish for festivals and creativity for beauty worldwide.

We create projects for Tinkoff, Yandex, CDEK, Samolet, Pari, Litres, Fonbet, VK, Sbermobile, Soyuzmultfilm, and others.

We are looking for a DevOps engineer for part-time, project-based work, remotely.

Our stack:

The main infrastructure is hosted in Timeweb Cloud. For Infrastructure as Code, we use OpenTofu (Terraform), for server configuration — Ansible.

On servers, we use Ubuntu, Docker, and Docker Compose. We use Angie as a reverse proxy. CI/CD is built on self-hosted GitLab and GitLab CI, we store images in GitLab Container Registry, and we proxy external Docker/npm/Composer repositories through Nexus.

For monitoring and logging, we use Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Grafana Alloy, as well as blackbox-exporter and other exporters. Infrastructure, monitoring, and alerting configuration is managed within the IaC approach.

Responsibilities:

• Development and support of project infrastructure in Timeweb Cloud.
• Development of Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu / Terraform.
• Development and support of Ansible roles and playbooks.
• Setup and support of Docker / Docker Compose environments.
• Development and support of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications.
• Network infrastructure setup: VPC, NAT, firewall, reverse proxy, DNS, SSL/TLS.
• Support of stage and production environments.
• Setup and development of monitoring, logging, and alerting based on Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Participation in the investigation of infrastructure problems and incidents.
• Automation of infrastructure and operational tasks.

Requirements:

• Proficient knowledge of Linux.
• Experience with Docker and Docker Compose.
• Experience with Terraform / OpenTofu or other IaC tools.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of networks: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, NAT, firewall.
• Experience with nginx, Angie, Traefik, or other reverse proxies.
• Understanding of how PostgreSQL, Redis, and other typical web application services work at the infrastructure level.
• Experience with Git.

Bonus points:

• Experience with Timeweb Cloud or other cloud providers.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and self-hosted GitLab.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Grafana Alloy.
• Experience with Nexus or other registry/repository managers.
• Experience building infrastructure for PHP, Node.js, or Go applications.
• Experience with RabbitMQ, Centrifugo, and other web application infrastructure components.
• Experience setting up security checks for infrastructure code: Checkov, Gitleaks, Trivy, and similar.
• Experience with Kubernetes.