Senior / Lead DevOps

Remote from: Europe
Annual salary: Undisclosed
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Department: DevOps & Infrastructure
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 22 Jun 2025
Apply before: 22 Jul 2025
Experience level: Senior
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Make your home a better place! Planner 5D is a popular home improvement and interior design platform used by 77M+ users

We are constantly looking for like-minded talent eager to take ownership and drive innovation within our expanding suite of tools. Join us in shaping the future of home design.

At Planner 5D we are searching for Senior / Lead DevOps specialist who will join our team and work on improving and maintaining our IT infrastructure.

Our tech stack: Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Gitlab, nginx, PHP, MySQL, MariaDB, TiDB, Hazelcast, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Ansible, Python, Bash

Responsibilities:

Management, purchase, … of infrastructure hardware/services (Hetzner, Amazon, Google Cloud, LeaderGPU)
Research and testing of new big solutions (for example TiDB, Kafka, Hadoop, …)
Launch, maintenance and monitoring of:
Front, load balancing, mirrors, CDN and DNS (nginx, haproxy, powerdns, …)
Application servers (PHP)
Container orchestration (Docker Swarm and Kubernetes)
TiDB, MongoDB, MariaDB Galera cluster
File storage clusters (GlusterFS, Ceph, …)
Worker servers (rendering, AI, …) – using Ansible, Docker, Kuber
Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, …)
Cloud services (BigQuery, SES, …)
Caching and queue servers (Redis, Hazelcast, RabbitMQ, …)
Multiple datacenters around the world
Other internal services / servers (VPN, analytics, mailing, …)
Virtual and dedicated servers
Infrastructure as code: Ansible, Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI/CD
Programming for infrastructure using Python, understanding of code and how servers/services are used in code to architect infrastructure solutions and find issues (in Python mostly, sometimes in other languages like Java, PHP, …)
Know and implement best practices in security, performance optimization, and maintainability
Manage and mentor the infrastructure team, improve the working process, and participate in proactive infrastructure management.

Required knowledge of:

Strong programming skills, ideally with past experience as a software engineer (Java, Python, etc.)
Deep expertise in Linux administration (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS), networking and system security knowledge
Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and similar including container orchestration and scaling
On-premise infrastructure expertise – understanding server clusters, database management, caching, and networking
Experience with databases, their administration, message brokers, load balancers, fronts, … and other servers commonly used in production stacks (MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, nginx, HAProxy, …)
Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools (GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Kubernetes)
Monitoring, logging, backup and disaster recovery (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, …)
A strong engineering mindset – ability to bridge development and infrastructure needs, sort out and understand new and old technologies
Experience in mentoring, process improvement, and proactive infrastructure management and architecting. This position has the potential to grow into a Team Lead role.

What we offer:

Great work environment that balances freedom and responsibility
Our team is made up of friendly and passionate enthusiasts who are eager to help and share their knowledge
We believe in work-life balance, so you’ll receive around 30+ days of paid holidays per year
Company computer equipment by request
Education courses for our team members, and we’re willing to allocate funds toward your training expenses
English classes on our corporate platform
Offline company events in Lithuania and online team-building
Unlimited free Planner5D subscriptions

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