DevOps and Network Engineer

Skywind Group is a privately held entertainment technology solutions provider. Since our establishment in 2012, we have been growing steadily alongside our partners and customers, proud to witness their own headway augmented by our products.

We shape the future of our industry with world-class games, back-office and content management systems, hosting solutions, infrastructure, proprietary deep learning engine as well as a revolutionary user retention suite of products.

Join us and become part of our team of over 400 professionals working in Romania, Cyprus, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Slovakia etc.

We are currently looking for a DevOps and Network Engineer to join our team!

Are you passionate about modern cloud infrastructure and automation?

Join our team to build and maintain scalable systems that power our operations. From CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration to cloud platforms and infrastructure as code, you'll ensure everything runs securely and efficiently. You'll work with cutting-edge DevOps tools and technologies in a collaborative environment that values automation, continuous delivery, and system reliability. If you're driven by DevOps excellence and enjoy solving complex automation challenges, we'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Administer various Linux systems and optimize performance
• Manage cloud and on-premises infrastructure using Terraform for automated provisioning
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines using Jenkins
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, Helm & ArgoCD
• Configure firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and implement network security
• Automate system configuration using Ansible and Bash & Python scripts
• Implement monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging solutions
• Participate in on-call rotation
  
  

Requirements

Networking

• Hands-on experience configuring, maintaining, and optimizing CheckPoint, Cisco ASA/FirePower, and Fortigate platforms (firewall rules, IPS, Application control, clustering, SSL and IPSEC VPNs)
• Proven experience with Cisco and Fortinet switching platforms, including configuration, troubleshooting, and performance optimization (BGP, DNS, GRE, Anycast, HSRP, VRRP, SSL and IPSEC VPNs, LACP, VLANs, and VPC configurations)
• Experience deploying and managing various load-balancers (e.g. HAProxy, VTM, nginx), managed public cloud solution
• Hands-on experience with DDoS mitigation techniques, security monitoring, and incident response procedures
• Experience with Content Delivery Network platforms and Web Application Firewall solutions for performance and security optimization
• Proactive monitoring of network performance, connectivity troubleshooting, and ensuring 24/7 network availability
  
  

DevOps & Infrastructure Automation

• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Linux OS (Ubuntu/Debian preferred), including package management, user permissions, kernel tuning, and system optimization
• Proficiency with Git (branching strategies, merging, pull requests)
• Practical experience with at least one of: Bash, Python, or Go for automation and infrastructure management tasks
• Experience with Jenkins (preferred) or other tools (TeamCity, GitLab, GitHub Actions, CircleCI) for building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
• Hands-on experience with Ansible (preferred), Chef, or Puppet for system configuration and management automation
• Experience with Terraform (preferred), OpenTofu, or CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning and management (IaC)
• Implementation and maintenance of Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager for monitoring and alerting and optionally Zabbix for legacy system
• Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) stacks for centralized logging
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure acceptable) including VPC management, S3/storage buckets, EC2/compute instances, and managed Kubernetes services
• Experience with virtualization solutions such as VMware, KVM, or oVirt
• Hands-on experience with Docker/Podman, Dockerfile creation, and container lifecycle management
• Kubernetes experience including kubeadm deployments and managed solutions for container orchestration and scaling
  
  

Nice To Have

• Experience with ArgoCD (preferred) or Flux for Git-based deployment automation and application lifecycle management (GitOps)
• Experience with Vault, OpenBao, 1Password, or cloud-native secret management services
• Experience with Kafka (preferred), RabbitMQ, or NATS including setup, configuration, producers/consumers management, monitoring, and topic management
• Knowledge of security best practices, compliance frameworks, and security incident response