DevOps Engineer

Details

NordLayer is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join its SRE team and help evolve production infrastructure at scale. The role involves working across on-premises bare-metal infrastructure and AWS, improving network security and reliability, and developing automation and infrastructure tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises bare-metal fleets and AWS.
• Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Manage configuration with Puppet and Ansible across both environments.
• Maintain and improve network infrastructure, including routing, load balancing, tunneling, and security features.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI for infrastructure and platform delivery.
• Participate in incident response and contribute to postmortems and reliability improvements.
• Apply AI tools to reduce operational toil and improve automation, tooling, and incident response.
• Collaborate with Product and engineering teams to translate business needs into infrastructure solutions.
• Contribute ideas to improve team processes and ways of working.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on Linux systems or infrastructure experience.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including IPv4, routing, bridging, proxies, and DNS.
• Production experience with AWS, including services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, and ECS.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines; GitLab CI is preferred.
• Scripting experience with Bash and Python.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI tools and workflows, with hands-on experience applying them to infrastructure automation, incident response, or tooling.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience writing and maintaining reusable Terraform modules.
• Experience with Puppet and/or Ansible.
• Experience with Unix networking tools and tunneling protocols, including iptables, nftables, OpenVPN, IPSec, WireGuard, Bind, and PowerDNS.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles such as least privilege, defense in depth, and secrets management.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, LXC, microVMs, or ECS.
• AWS SysOps Administrator or Solutions Architect Associate certification.
• Experience with Terragrunt.

Tools

• Python
• Bash
• Linux
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Terragrunt
• AWS, including EC2, RDS, ECS, VPC, and IAM
• GitLab and GitLab CI
• HashiCorp Vault and Consul

Benefits

• Online and in-person training, access to Coursera and Skillshare, mentorship, and internal career opportunities.
• Extra vacation days, sick leave, special-occasion leave, and parenting leave.
• Premium private health insurance in Lithuania and Poland.
• Subscriptions to Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic, plus resilience and mindfulness training and mental health events.
• In-house gyms, Multisport and Urban Sport cards, online workouts, and physical well-being support.
• Company workations and the option to work from different locations.
• Gifts for birthdays, work anniversaries, weddings, and new family members.
• Summer camps for children and flexible working arrangements for parents.
• Team-building activities and company events.
• Access to NordLayer's Vilnius headquarters, including silent rooms, gyms, a game room, a music room, and a coffee bar.