Lead DevOps initiatives including monolith-to-microservices migrations, Kubernetes cluster management, Helm deployments, GitOps, CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, security configuration, and observability. Establish production-readiness standards and maintain reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems across complex environments. The role requires extensive Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, monitoring, and AI-assisted development experience.
Description
Joining Tikal means entering a career journey, building your tailored development roadmap.
While seniority doesn't signify the end of learning, it can often be difficult to find the time and hands-on experience to focus on your professional development. At Tikal, you can choose what you want and need to learn and the hands-on practice to "walk the talk"
What You’ll Gain at Tikal:
- Micro and Macro Perspective- With exposure to 70-100 relevant clients in the field, you’ll gain a broad view and deep understanding of different technologies and methodologies across various industries.
- Technical Mastery: Utilize state-of-the-art DevOps tools and practices in real-world production settings, ensuring you are always at the forefront of technology. Embrace a cloud-native stack and the 15-factor app principles to build scalable, maintainable, and efficient applications.
- Expert DevOps Community- Join a team of ~50 dedicated DevOps professionals who live and breathe DevOps. You’ll collaborate, share knowledge, and refine practices together, growing as part of a supportive and highly skilled group.
- Toolbox- As a company with over 25 years of experience, we provide a robust technical foundation and a comprehensive toolbox, developed through years of knowledge and integration of best-in-class tools.
Responsibilities:
- Microservices Transformation- Lead the migration from monolithic systems to microservices using Kubernetes, Istio, and Linkerd. Your work will focus on ensuring reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance in production.
- Container Orchestration- Manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, automate deployments with Helm, and integrate continuous delivery using Gitops technologies (ArgoCD).
- Developer Experience- Improve CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, github-actions, and other tools to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.
- GitOps and Automation- Implement GitOps using FluxCD and automate infrastructure management with Terraform. You’ll be responsible for maintaining security and configuration management with HashiCorp Vault.
- Monitoring and Observability- Build and manage observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Jaeger, ensuring full visibility and fast incident response.
- Production Readiness- Define production-readiness standards and implement monitoring tools like Datadog and New Relic to ensure systems are stable and performant.
Tech skills:
- 7+ Years in DevOps- Extensive experience working in complex, large-scale environments.
- Proven experience working in an AI-assisted development environment, defining high-level technical goals and leveraging autonomous AI agents (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Devin-style tools) to execute multi-file implementations, while maintaining ownership of architecture, design decisions, code quality, and final validation.
- Kubernetes Expertise- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, and related tools within the CNCF ecosystem.
- Cloud and IaC- Proficient in Terraform, Ansible, and other Infrastructure as Code tools. Experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure is a plus.
- GitOps and Automation- Hands-on experience with GitOps practices, using tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, and Jenkins.
- Monitoring and Observability- Proven experience building and maintaining monitoring and observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Jaeger
If you’re a leading DevOps professional who resonates with what we’ve described and has the practical and architectural skills to make a difference, let’s meet.
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