Senior DevOps Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time in Romania.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Our client's infrastructure powers millions of live sports events worldwide - from raw video capture at remote venues to real-time stream delivery and ML-driven monetization. As a DevOps & Platform Engineer, you will be a core contributor to the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our cloud platform.

You'll work inside a self-service, pod-based engineering model where your job is to build the platforms, pipelines, and guardrails that let product teams ship independently - at high velocity and with full operational ownership. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact individual contributor role with a clear technical growth path.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain GitOps-based delivery pipelines (ArgoCD) so product pods deploy safely without DevOps intervention

• Design and evolve self-service tooling - golden paths, deployment templates, scaffolding - that reduce pod dependency on the platform team

• Implement deployment safety guardrails: config diffing, change ownership, rollout strategies, and…