Senior DevOps Engineer

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

• Own and improve our apps running on Kubernetes platform :

• 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

• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab :

• 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

• Set up and improve observability :

• 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

• Research & experiment :

• 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.

• Document and share knowledge :

• 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.

• Collaborate across teams :

• 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

• Previous work experience as a DevOps Engineer (senior-level, owning and improving production systems)
• Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and GitLab, understanding of CI/CD, logging and monitoring processes, including:

• 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.

• Bonus points if you have experience with

• MySQL (or other databases) at scale
• PHP (Symfony framework)
• Familiarity with some of: Message Brokers, logging and monitoring systems

• Fluent communication skills in English;
• Working knowledge of incorporating robust code security practices to safeguard the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of software systems including but not limited to OWASP secure coding guidelines;
• Effective collaboration skills, capable of working well in a team environment that values security and quality.
• Strong documentation mindset – you naturally document architecture, decisions, and procedures so others can follow and maintain them.
• A genuine interest in researching , testing, and introducing new ideas and tools, not just “keeping the lights on”.

We offer

• High-performing teams. At Tribe we think outside the box, take ownership of what we do, aim high and deliver uncompromising quality. You will be surrounded by a smart and high-performing team with a collaborative mindset.
• Health & Wellness. Health insurance package from the first day that you will join our team. Enjoyable daily lunches & Pizza Fridays. Variety of healthy snacks, fresh fruits, and drinks in the office.
• Level up. We constantly explore the possibilities within our industry and in the technology we build. To keep your minds curious we offer: Tribe Learning Days - time freely spent on self-education; Internal and external training; Tribe Learning library stocked with tech books; Learning & Development budget for conferences, training, podcasts, online courses, and professional certifications.
• Work-life balance. To increase your productivity we are offering a hybrid work model - you can plan your work partly from the office or remotely from your home. You can combine your work & vacations, so be ready to plan workations. For 2 weeks per year, you can work from anywhere - and we mean anywhere! Extra days off for your health and birthday day off!
• Tribe Vibe & Culture. At Tribe, we foster a positive and fun working environment, which is called a “tribe vibe”. Even if we work hard, we do not forget to party as well: be ready for legendary tribe fest and winter fest parties, events for the tribe community every month, and regular team building.
• Office & Environment. Open, creative, and fun working environment in the brand new BLC2 business center with provided parking places. To relax your mind and body - table foosball, table tennis, and massage chair. If you mostly work from home - we offer a home office budget to make your workplace comfortable.
• The salary range for this position is 3300- 7000 euros/monthly gross. The salary proposal depends on your competencies and seniority level.