DevOps Specialist

Mapon is looking for an experienced DevOps Specialist to join our Infrastructure Team.

This team is responsible for:

• Maintaining, scaling, and developing our server infrastructure
• Developing and supporting shared back-end components used across our products
• Providing test and development environments and deployment processes
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Ensuring IT security and reliable data backups
• Monitoring systems to ensure stability and performance

As part of this team, you will work closely with other senior colleagues to improve and maintain our CI/CD processes in GitLab, manage our Docker environments, ensure smooth data replication to our internal BI data warehouse, and collaborate with development teams to support and optimize development workflows.

• CI/CD and developer workflows
  • Maintain and improve our GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines
  • Optimize build, test, and deployment processes across teams
• Containerized environments
  • Administer, monitor, and optimize Docker environments used for development and testing
• Data pipeline reliability
  • Manage and monitor replication pipelines from production databases to our internal Data Warehouse (ETL)
  • Ensure reliability and automation of these pipelines (data calculations and transformations are handled by product teams)
  • Maintain and update tools used in pipelines (e.g., Apache NiFi)
• Infrastructure and automation
  • Support and improve Infrastructure as Code practices (Ansible today, room to expand further)
  • Work on optimizations and automation in our on-prem setup
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)
• Collaboration and improvement
  • Work with internal development teams to suggest and implement improvements in tools, workflows, and infrastructure
  • Contribute to the stability, performance, and security of our systems

Note: DevOps at Mapon does not include on-call responsibilities. Incidents are currently handled by senior developers across product teams.

• Experience with GitLab CI/CD
• Solid understanding of Docker and containerized environments
• Strong skills with MySQL (queries, data handling, optimization)
• Understanding of data warehouses and denormalized data structures
• Familiarity with ETL concepts and data pipeline reliability (experience with Apache NiFi or similar is a plus)
• Scripting/programming experience (e.g., Bash, Python, PHP, Node.js)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)
• Understanding of data security and privacy principles (GDPR)
• Positive attitude, initiative, and drive to continuously improve skills and tools

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Kubernetes or Podman knowledge

• Salary starting from 3000 EUR before taxes (compensation depends on knowledge and experience)
• Paid lunches and fruit in the office;
• Personalized employee benefits after the probation period, from which you can choose the most suitable for you:
• Health insurance (including mental health support, dental care, and massage courses),
• Additional sports programs,
• Employer contributions to your 3rd pension pillar,
• Additional paid holidays, including your birthday;
• An annual learning budget for enhancing your skills and knowledge, from seminars to book purchases;
• Free parking at the office;
• Flexible working hours: the possibility to start your workday anytime before 11:00;
• Additional paid leave for various life events, including paid study leave;
• The opportunity to work outside Latvia for up to 90 days a year;
• The option to work remotely or in our cozy office;
• A dedicated budget for team-building events;
• Paid participation in major sports events such as Stirnu Buks and the Riga Marathon;
• Interest groups and activities within the Draugiem Group community.

*We provide detailed feedback on interview performance and/or the technical task only to candidates who have reached the final stage of the selection process.

Mapon (reg.nr. 40003800531)