DevOps Specialist

Mapon is looking for an experienced DevOps Specialist to join our Infrastructure Team.
This team is responsible for:
- Maintaining, scaling, and developing our server infrastructure
 - Developing and supporting shared back-end components used across our products
 - Providing test and development environments and deployment processes
 - Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
 - Ensuring IT security and reliable data backups
 - Monitoring systems to ensure stability and performance
 
As part of this team, you will work closely with other senior colleagues to improve and maintain our CI/CD processes in GitLab, manage our Docker environments, ensure smooth data replication to our internal BI data warehouse, and collaborate with development teams to support and optimize development workflows.
- CI/CD and developer workflows
- Maintain and improve our GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines
 - Optimize build, test, and deployment processes across teams
 
 - Containerized environments
- Administer, monitor, and optimize Docker environments used for development and testing
 
 - Data pipeline reliability
- Manage and monitor replication pipelines from production databases to our internal Data Warehouse (ETL)
 - Ensure reliability and automation of these pipelines (data calculations and transformations are handled by product teams)
 - Maintain and update tools used in pipelines (e.g., Apache NiFi)
 
 - Infrastructure and automation
- Support and improve Infrastructure as Code practices (Ansible today, room to expand further)
 - Work on optimizations and automation in our on-prem setup
 
 - Monitoring and alerting
- Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)
 
 - Collaboration and improvement
- Work with internal development teams to suggest and implement improvements in tools, workflows, and infrastructure
 - Contribute to the stability, performance, and security of our systems
 
 
Note: DevOps at Mapon does not include on-call responsibilities. Incidents are currently handled by senior developers across product teams.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD
 - Solid understanding of Docker and containerized environments
 - Strong skills with MySQL (queries, data handling, optimization)
 - Understanding of data warehouses and denormalized data structures
 - Familiarity with ETL concepts and data pipeline reliability (experience with Apache NiFi or similar is a plus)
 - Scripting/programming experience (e.g., Bash, Python, PHP, Node.js)
 - Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)
 - Understanding of data security and privacy principles (GDPR)
 - Positive attitude, initiative, and drive to continuously improve skills and tools
 
Bonus points for:
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
 - Kubernetes or Podman knowledge
 
- Salary starting from 3000 EUR before taxes (compensation depends on knowledge and experience)
 - Paid lunches and fruit in the office;
 - Personalized employee benefits after the probation period, from which you can choose the most suitable for you:
 - Health insurance (including mental health support, dental care, and massage courses),
 - Additional sports programs,
 - Employer contributions to your 3rd pension pillar,
 - Additional paid holidays, including your birthday;
 - An annual learning budget for enhancing your skills and knowledge, from seminars to book purchases;
 - Free parking at the office;
 - Flexible working hours: the possibility to start your workday anytime before 11:00;
 - Additional paid leave for various life events, including paid study leave;
 - The opportunity to work outside Latvia for up to 90 days a year;
 - The option to work remotely or in our cozy office;
 - A dedicated budget for team-building events;
 - Paid participation in major sports events such as Stirnu Buks and the Riga Marathon;
 - Interest groups and activities within the Draugiem Group community.
 
*We provide detailed feedback on interview performance and/or the technical task only to candidates who have reached the final stage of the selection process.
Mapon (reg.nr. 40003800531)
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