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# DevOps Engineer Vacancy  
**Governmental Statistical Warehouse for National Healthcare Services**

**Position Title:** DevOps Engineer  
**Department:** Information Technology and Data Management  
**Location:** Kyiv, Ukraine (Hybrid / Remote options available)  
**Employment Type:** Full-Time Contract  
**Contract Duration:** Initial 12 months (with high probability of extension)  
**Reporting To:** IT Project Manager  
**Application Deadline:** March 15, 2026  
**Expected Start Date:** April 1, 2026  

## About the Project

The **National Healthcare Services (NHS)** is developing the **Governmental Statistical Warehouse (GSW)** — a secure, high-performance, cloud-based platform for collecting, storing, processing and analyzing aggregated statistical healthcare data across Ukraine.  

The warehouse supports:  
- Evidence-based health policy decisions  
- Epidemiological surveillance  
- Healthcare resource planning and allocation  

We are looking for an experienced **DevOps Engineer** to design, build and operate the reliable, secure and scalable infrastructure underpinning this national-level system.

## Statement of Work – Main Responsibilities

### 1. Core Scope of Work
- Design & implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration (IaC)
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery and scalability
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging and alerting
- Harden security posture (encryption, access control, auditability)
- Collaborate closely with data engineers, backend developers and security specialists

### 2. Key Deliverables
- Automated CI/CD pipelines (dev → test → staging → prod)
- Terraform / OpenTofu (or equivalent) infrastructure code for compliant cloud environments
- Kubernetes-based (or equivalent) orchestration setup
- Centralized logging, metrics and tracing (Prometheus + Grafana + Loki / ELK / Tempo / similar)
- Security baseline implementation & documentation (aligned with Ukrainian state requirements)
- Backup & disaster recovery procedures
- Cost-optimization dashboard / reports
- Knowledge transfer sessions and internal documentation

### 3. Indicative Timeline & Milestones
- **Months 1–2**   Infrastructure assessment & toolchain selection
- **Months 3–6**   Core pipelines, IaC, container platform, initial environments
- **Months 7–9**   Security hardening, observability stack, performance testing
- **Months 10–12**  Production readiness, load testing, handover & documentation
- **Ongoing**      Support, incident response, continuous improvement

### 4. Required SLAs & Quality Gates
- Infrastructure uptime target: **≥ 99.9%**
- Critical incident acknowledgment: **≤ 30 minutes**
- Deployment frequency goal: **≥ 1 production release per 2 weeks**
- 100% compliance with Ukrainian data protection & state IT security regulations

## Required Skills & Experience

### Must-have
- 5+ years of hands-on DevOps / SRE experience
- Strong proficiency with **Terraform** / OpenTofu (or CloudFormation / Pulumi)
- Production experience with **Kubernetes** (EKS / AKS / GKE or self-managed)
- Deep understanding of **CI/CD** tools (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD preferred)
- Solid scripting skills (**Bash**, **Python**)
- Experience operating cloud environments (**AWS**, **Azure** or **GCP**) under strict compliance rules
- Familiarity with observability stack (**Prometheus**, **Grafana**, **Loki** / **ELK**)
- Understanding of secrets management (**Vault**, AWS Secrets Manager, Sealed Secrets…)
- Good spoken & written **English** + **Ukrainian**

### Strong advantage
- Previous experience in governmental, healthcare or highly-regulated projects
- Knowledge of Ukrainian personal data protection legislation & state cybersecurity standards
- Experience with big-data tooling (**Spark**, **Airflow**, **Kafka**, **ClickHouse** / **Snowflake**-like systems)
- ArgoCD, Flux or GitOps mindset
- Relevant certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS DevOps, Azure DevOps, Terraform Associate…)

## Conditions

- **Salary range:** 150 000 – 250 000 UAH net / month (depending on experience & interview results)
- Official employment or long-term contract — to be discussed
- Health insurance
- 28 calendar days of paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- Budget for professional training & certifications
- Modern technical equipment provided
- Hybrid work model (Kyiv office + remote)

## How to Apply

Send your CV + short cover letter (or LinkedIn profile link) to:  
**maxim@synrc.com**  

Email subject:  
**DevOps Engineer – GSW – [Your Last Name]**

We kindly ask you to refrain from calls until we contact you.

We are an equal opportunity employer.  
Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews.

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Ukraine’s public healthcare data infrastructure.