[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Fundraise Up

Role Description

You will join the DevOps team responsible for the platforms our engineering teams rely on daily: CI/CD, observability, logging, and developer tooling. Our philosophy is simple: the team owns its systems end-to-end, and every engineer should be able to diagnose and fix issues in their area of responsibility. This is a senior-only role.

We are looking for an engineer we can hand an entire area — observability or CI/CD — and trust to run it: from requirements and technical design through rollout, operations, and mentoring others. You will be the go-to technical reference for your area and the senior escalation point for complex incidents in it.

What You’ll Do

• Own one of our core platform areas end-to-end: observability (VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Graylog / VictoriaLogs, fluent bit, exporters, alerting) or CI/CD (Jenkins scripted pipelines, Harbor, Nexus, build agents) — you drive its architecture, reliability, and roadmap.
• Drive technical initiatives end-to-end: gather requirements, write the design doc, decompose into tasks, implement, deliver to production, and own the operational health afterwards.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations by defining requirements, assumptions, and next steps.
• Design for reliability and scale: evolve the architecture of our platforms — topology, integration points, scaling approach, and reliability model.
• Support developers: deploy and monitor applications on both on-premise servers and Kubernetes (Helm), troubleshoot builds and deploys, help teams with metrics, alerts, and logs; participate in chat duty in developer support channels.
• Automate away toil: repetitive operations, provisioning, and maintenance should be codified, not performed by hand.
• Investigate production incidents as the senior escalation point for your area: drive resolution, lead post-mortems, implement systemic fixes. Participate in on-call rotations and raise the bar for how on-call works.
• Mentor less experienced engineers through design discussions, reviews, and pairing; catch debt-inducing shortcuts at the review stage.
• Use AI in all aspects of day-to-day work: researching, troubleshooting, developing.

Qualifications

• 6+ years as a DevOps Engineer / SRE (or very close responsibilities).
• Track record of owning technical initiatives end-to-end — from requirements and technical design through production delivery.
• Confident Linux skills (we use Ubuntu).
• Working knowledge of the Prometheus stack: metric types, exporters, and how alerting works.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD: pipeline design, build orchestration, artifact delivery.
• Experience with Containers: Docker, image building, registries.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience with Git.
• Experience with Bash or Python scripting for automation and observability.
• Production/on-call experience: diagnosing incidents, restoring service, leading post-mortems.
• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers.
• Ownership and attention to detail.

Requirements

• Solid hands-on experience in two or more of the following areas:
• VictoriaMetrics / Prometheus stack at scale: architecture, cardinality control, exporters, alerting infrastructure.
• Log pipelines at scale: Graylog / VictoriaLogs / ELK — collection (fluent bit or similar), retention, sharding, performance.
• Jenkins scripted pipelines: shared libraries, pipeline infrastructure, build agent fleets.
• Container registries and artifact management: Harbor, Nexus, base images, image policies.
• Operating applications on Kubernetes: Helm, workload monitoring and log delivery, deploy troubleshooting.
• Grafana: dashboards as code, alerting, performance at scale.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance for the employee and their family.
• 23 paid vacation days per year.
• 11 paid public holidays per year.
• 5 company-paid sick leave days.
• English learning courses.
• Relevant professional education.
• Gym or swimming pool.
• Home Office Setup Assistance: the company offers assistance with purchasing furniture (office chair, office desk, monitor) and other items to create a comfortable workspace.
• Co-working.
• Remote working.