Майндтек Девелопмент
Senior System Engineer
Senior System Engineer at Mindtech (Minsk, remote possible) helping evolve Infrastructure & Ops toward a platform engineering model: automating provisioning and building reusable platform services with Kubernetes, Terraform/Ansible, CI/CD, secrets management, and observability, plus troubleshooting complex production issues across Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Минск
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Production Engineering or similar
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
- Good understanding of production infrastructure, networking and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible or similar)
- Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation workflows
- Programming or strong scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, Bash or similar
- Experience with monitoring and observability systems
- Understanding of secrets management and secure infrastructure access patterns
- Experience integrating infrastructure systems through APIs
- Ability to design reusable infrastructure solutions instead of one-off automation
- Strong systems thinking and ability to troubleshoot complex cross-system issues
- Ability and willingness to learn new infrastructure and platform technologies
- Strong analytical thinking and technical curiosity
- Ownership and responsibility
- Pragmatic approach to automation and engineering
- Ability to work independently on ambiguous technical problems
- Good communication and documentation skills
- Willingness to remain hands-on and share technical knowledge
Nice to have
- Experience with GitOps approaches and tools
- Experience with Crossplane, Kubernetes operators or controllers
- Experience with Vault or similar secrets management platforms
- Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis or ClickHouse
- Experience with Proxmox, VMware or public cloud platforms
- Experience developing internal infrastructure tools, APIs or self-service capabilities
Full description
Mindtech is on the lookout for a Senior System Engineer to join our** Engineering Team.
Key Responsibilities:**
- Platform Engineering & Transformation: Help evolve Infrastructure & Operations toward a platform engineering model.
- Workflow Automation & Standardization: Standardize and automate infrastructure workflows and reduce manual provisioning.
- Core Capabilities & Provisioning: Build reusable infrastructure capabilities for databases, messaging, secrets, DNS, compute, monitoring, and application environments.
- Internal Tooling & Lifecycle Management: Develop internal tooling, APIs, and declarative workflows for infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Ecosystem & Tooling Integration: Improve integration between Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, secrets management, databases, and observability systems.
- Architectural & Technical Design: Participate in architecture and technical design of platform and infrastructure services.
- Reliability & Performance Engineering: Improve reliability, scalability, and operational simplicity of production infrastructure.
- Troubleshooting & Incident Investigation: Investigate complex infrastructure and production issues across Linux, networking, applications, and distributed systems.
- Observability & Diagnostics: Improve observability, diagnostics, and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Development, DevOps, SRE, DBA, Security, and Infrastructure units.
- Documentation & Best Practices: Standardize common infrastructure solutions and document how they should be implemented and used.
- Technology Innovation & Developer Experience: Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve developer experience and infrastructure efficiency.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Production Engineering or similar roles.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Good understanding of production infrastructure, networking and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Codeand configuration management, using Terraform, Ansible or similar tools.