Senior DevOps Engineer

Why This Role Is Exciting

At Innovatrics, we’re building biometric technologies that empower people across 80+ countries — and we’re now taking the next step: building our SaaS platform.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll help design and operate the infrastructure powering our biometric services and new cloud-native SaaS solutions. Your work will ensure reliability, scalability, and automation across all environments, from development to global production.

You’ll be part of a highly skilled team leveraging AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and modern observability tools to deliver resilient, automated, and observable systems that scale globally.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure supporting Innovatrics’ upcoming SaaS platform.
• Develop and manage containerized environments using Kubernetes and AWS services.
• Develop and maintain automation & reliability tools, deployment automatization (e.g., canary deployments)
• Implement and evolve monitoring and observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Support and optimize service communication and reliability across microservices (gRPC, MQ, Keycloak, Ignite).
• Contribute to on-call support, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate closely with developers, QA, and platform engineers to improve scalability, resilience, and delivery performance.
• Responsible for DR tests (tabletop, partial failover, full DR, chaos/resilience)
• Define and ensure achievement of SLOs/SLIs based on required SLAs.

Requirements

About You

• Proven experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering in production or SaaS environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Familiar with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with networking, security, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Skilled in scripting or automation using Python, Go, or Bash.
• You work well in cross-functional teams and take ownership of system reliability and performance.
  

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with service mesh (Linkerd).
• Understanding of messaging systems (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ).
• Familiarity with Keycloak for identity and access management.
• Background in building or supporting SaaS or multi-tenant systems.
  

Our Tech Stack

• Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD
• Networking & Observability: OpenTelemetry, Linkerd, Prometheus, Grafana
• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab CI/CD
• Messaging & Integration: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, gRPC
• Security & Access: Keycloak, Auth0
• Caching & Data Layer: Redis/Elasticache
• Languages & Tools: Bash, Python, Go

Benefits

At Innovatrics, we offer highly competitive salaries because we value top talent who share our values and goals. Compensation is determined based on your level, skills, experience, qualifications, and location.

Salary gross range: from 3,500 to 7,000 EUR gross/monthly, tied to competency and technical evaluation.

Interview Process

Here is the typical interview process for this role:

👋 Introduction Stage (~30 min.)

• Recruiter Screen

🧑‍💻 Team Interview Stage   (~120 min.)

We have a one single interview round that takes approximately 2 - 2,5  hours and is divided into two stages:

• Stage 1: Technical Interview (60 min)
  An interactive session with our technical team, focusing on your problem-solving approach and technical knowledge relevant to the role.
  
• Stage 2: Practical Collaboration (60~90 min)
  A hands-on session where you will work directly with our Engineers and Hiring Manager on a real-world problem. This is a practical, collaborative exercise designed to see how you approach challenges, communicate your reasoning, and co-create solutions in real time.
  

🎯 Final Stage (~30 min.)

• CARES Interview: Final conversation with our CARES committee to ensure alignment with our core values—Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Shared Mission.
• Reference checks and background verification
  

We encourage candidates to request additional conversations with anyone they would like to meet.

Learn More About Us

Learn more about our culture, values, benefits and what it’s like to work at Innovatrics: 
https://careers.innovatrics.com/