Lead DevOps Engineer [GR Telecom, MTS Web Services]

About the company

The GR Telecom product is an electronic interaction platform for MTS with government authorities, featuring mission-critical reliability. And now, we are inviting a Lead DevOps Engineer to join this product team!

Your tasks

• develop and evolve the DevOps strategy for the telecom platform and integrations with the public sector: CI/CD, observability, scalability;
• build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate builds, tests, and releases;
• orchestrate containerized services in Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, ensuring fault tolerance and horizontal scaling;
• manage infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform) for cloud and secure segments (RedOS, Astra Linux);
• implement monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, openstack), SLO/SLA, chaos engineering, and DR drills for critical services;
• develop practices, maintain ADRs and technical documentation;
• mentor DevOps engineers;
• interact with customers, architects, and development teams;
• justify infrastructure decisions and undergo audits.

Requirements

What we expect from the candidate

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps and system administration, including the operation of high-load distributed systems and microservice platforms;
• development and support of internal PaaS solutions for distributed development teams (e.g., MTS);
• proficient knowledge of Linux, virtualization (Proxmox VE, KVM), and hybrid environments;
• automation skills: Bash/Shell, Python, Ansible, Git;
• experience in containerization and orchestration: Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, deployment and maintenance of clusters;
• building and supporting CI/CD: GitLab CI (creating pipelines, groups, GitFlow branching, Merge Requests), automation of builds, testing, and deployment;
• monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Zabbix, configuring alerting, centralized logging, and service health monitoring;
• ensuring fault tolerance: backup, Disaster Recovery, periodic disaster recovery tests, staging/production support;
• security and secrets management: HashiCorp Vault, RBAC, access control to repositories, perimeters, and clusters;
• working with DBMS and cache: PostgreSQL, Redis;
• readiness to work remotely, with occasional business trips;
• English at B2 level;
• higher or specialized secondary education in applied informatics, computers, complexes, and systems;

will be a plus

• experience working with state information systems on Linux (installation, configuration, monitoring, backup, and automation (e.g., Moscow Department of Information Technologies).

Requirements Not specified; Experience: 0 years

What we offer

What we offer

• professional guilds by direction to support each other and exchange experience;
• work in a modern, reliable digital company;
• agile culture: product teams, Scrum and Kanban, demo days, internal meetups, and town halls;
• no dress code, flexible work format;
• useful courses and webinars in the corporate university and electronic libraries, development programs.

And also

• medical insurance from the 1st month with 100% coverage, including dentistry, life insurance, and health insurance for travel abroad.
• You can also insure relatives with a corporate discount;
• corporate and team psychologist in the office and a massage room;
• a single MTS Premium subscription — KION light in the KION online cinema, MTS Music service, 30 days of free OZON Premium subscription;
• discounts and offers from partners for fitness, English classes, and more.