Senior DevOps Engineer

About Melli Gold
Melli Gold is a fintech startup operating at the intersection of the gold market and financial technology. We design and develop an intelligent and secure infrastructure for sourcing, trading, and managing gold flows in Iran.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain our infrastructure and platform engineering ecosystem. You will play a key role in building Kubernetes-based platforms, automating infrastructure, improving deployment workflows, and establishing reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
The role involves working on both our current infrastructure and a new on-premises Kubernetes and virtualization platform, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, automation, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes clusters and production workloads.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Design reusable Helm charts, Kubernetes templates, and platform components.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Improve system reliability, availability, performance, and scalability.
• Implement infrastructure security, access control, secrets management, and network policies.
• Manage infrastructure configuration, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle operations.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and participate in incident response.
• Establish operational standards, documentation, runbooks, and automation practices.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application deployment and production readiness.

Required Skills:

• Kubernetes: Strong production experience with Kubernetes, cluster architecture, networking, storage, RBAC, and troubleshooting.
• Terraform: Infrastructure provisioning, reusable modules, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Ansible: Configuration management, automation, and infrastructure orchestration.
• Helm: Building and maintaining reusable Kubernetes deployment templates.
• Argo CD: GitOps, application delivery, and deployment management.
• Linux: Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Networking: Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and network troubleshooting.
• CI/CD: Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar platforms.
• Observability: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and related monitoring tools.
• Security: Understanding of infrastructure security, secrets management, and access control.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience operating and troubleshooting production infrastructure.

Bonus Skills:

• Ceph: Distributed storage architecture, operations, and troubleshooting.
• VMware: vSphere, vSAN ESA, HA, DRS, storage passthrough, and virtualization architecture.
• Networking: BGP, VRF, ECMP.