Senior DevOps Engineer
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Tribe Payments, a payments processor focused on simplifying the payments market, is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Kaunas, Lithuania. The role involves owning Kubernetes workloads, building Helm charts, evolving GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and improving observability with Elasticsearch and Prometheus on AWS. Requires senior-level DevOps experience with AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab, Linux, and bash scripting; bonus for MySQL, PHP/Symfony, and messaging systems. Offers hybrid work, health insurance, learning budget, and extra perks like birthday off and work-from-anywhere weeks.
Tribe, a brand-new payments processor, is looking to continue its rapid expansion in the payments market. Tribe is a group of people that have come together with the singular purpose of making the world of payments simple and accessible. Join our ever-growing Tribe Payments team as a DevOps Engineer and help us change the way this market perceives payments.
What You Would Do:
Build and maintain Helm charts for our services
Standardize deployment patterns, configuration, and release strategies
Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of workloads running on k8s
Design flexible pipelines for build, test, security scanning, and deploymentIntroduce best practices (versioning, feature flags, rollbacks, approvals, etc.)
Continuously improve speed, reliability, and developer experience
Use Elasticsearch , Prometheus (and related tooling) to create useful dashboards & alerts
Help teams understand logs, metrics, and traces — turn data into decisions
Build early-warning detection frameworks and validation/simulation practices to surface failure modes before production
Investigate new tools, patterns, and AWS services; compare alternatives
POC and validate ideas before rolling them out to production
Bring proposals to the team, explain trade-offs and lead implementation
Apply new learning specifically to solve harder reliability/scalability/automation problems and show progress through delivered outcomes.
Write clear runbooks, architecture/infra documentation, and “how-to” guides
Make sure others can understand, reproduce, and maintain what you build
Prevent long-term system “decay” by simplifying complex setups and institutionalizing sustainable best practices.
Work closely with developers, security, product and operations
Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention work
Align infrastructure decisions with product goals, cost efficiency, and deployment impact; proactively flag technical risks affecting availability/performance
You have
Operate AWS environment. Building and maintaining Kubernetes Helm charts for production workloads
Designing, implementing, and maintaining GitLab pipelines for complex applications
Undeniable Linux experience and skills
Solid knowledge of web servers, networking basics, and bash scripting.
MySQL (or other databases) at scale
PHP (Symfony framework)
Familiarity with some of: Message Brokers, logging and monitoring systems