Platform/DevOps Engineer
What is Platform/DevOps Engineer?
Platform/DevOps Engineer is a professional role at Qualysoft based in Hungary. This role offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to work in the technology sector with modern tools and methodologies.
Employment Type: Type: Contractor
Duration: 1794269890
Work Arrangement: Remote work available with flexible scheduling
Industry: Information Technology & Professional Services
Complete Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Implement and deploy a self-hosted Renovate environment, including containers, workers, and job orchestration.
- Automate repository discovery and onboarding across tens of thousands of GitLab repositories using the GitLab API.
- Develop and maintain central, version-controlled Renovate configuration presets and enable repository-level customisation.
- Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and reporting dashboards covering repository coverage, update throughput, and error rates.
- Optimise system performance through parallelisation, caching, rate-limit management, and robust error handling.
- Integrate artifact and container registries with secure credential and secrets management solutions.
- Automate and streamline operational processes to ensure stable and reliable day-to-day operation.
- Prepare operational documentation and runbooks and provide technical support to development teams throughout the rollout.
- Support the phased rollout of the solution, from pilot implementation through to full-scale adoption.
Requirements:
- Solid professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Automation Engineer, or in a similar role.
- Strong knowledge of GitLab CI/CD and practical experience working with the GitLab API.
- Hands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code, such as OpenTofu and Helm.
- Good scripting or programming skills in Bash, Python, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript.
- Experience with monitoring and observability solutions, preferably New Relic.
- Knowledge of secrets management solutions such as Vault.
- Experience working with package and container registries.
- Practical experience with Renovate and automated dependency management.
- Strong automation mindset with a focus on scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Ability to work independently in a structured and solution-oriented manner.
- Good English communication skills.
Advantages:
- Experience operating Renovate at large scale, particularly across thousands or tens of thousands of repositories.
- Experience designing highly scalable GitLab-based platform solutions.
- Experience with GitLab Runner, distributed workers, job scheduling, or similar orchestration solutions.
- Experience with GitLab API automation and large-scale repository onboarding.
- Knowledge of dependency management and software supply-chain security.
- Experience with CVE-driven security updates and automated vulnerability remediation.
- Experience with additional secrets management, artifact management, or container registry technologies.
- Experience designing observability dashboards and operational KPIs for platform environments.
- Experience working in large enterprise or multinational environments.
Why we think you will love working here:
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What skills are required for this platform/devops engineer?
The essential skills and qualifications for this position include:
Additional preferred qualifications may include problem-solving abilities, strong communication skills, and experience working in collaborative team environments.
What type of employment is this platform/devops engineer?
This is a Type: Contractor position offering:
- Competitive compensation in EUR currency
- Remote work flexibility
- Professional development opportunities
- Modern technology stack and tools
- 1794269890 engagement period
How can I apply for this platform/devops engineer?
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