DevOps AWS / EKS engineer infrastructure

We are Centaurea — a team of imperfect people with a passion to build good, useful software. We are looking for a capable Senior DevOps Engineer who values real skills and clean architecture over «hype-driven infrastructure,» who is sharp and still curious, willing to do the hard work, and ready to drive success through honest, smart work.

• Kubernetes: 5+ years in production, EKS preferred.
• AWS: strong hands-on depth, ideally certified (DevOps Engineer – Professional, Solutions Architect – Professional or Security – Specialty).
• Security: least-privilege IAM and workload identity, secrets management, network policies, image scanning and supply-chain controls, audit logging.
• Observability: LGTM — Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir.
• Python: scripting for automation and tooling.
• AI / MCP: LLM agents and MCP servers wired into real workflows, with access scoped so agents never hold the keys to production.
• Coming from GKE, AKS or on-prem? Welcome — with a reduced starting rate for the first months while you convert to AWS, then we re-evaluate contract terms.
• You are realistic and curious. Solid fundamentals and background, but you clearly see your gaps and are curious enough to understand the problem better, learn a different solution, and become a tiny better version of yourself tomorrow.
• You value feedback. Code review isn't a battleground — it's free education. You are open to critique because you want your work to be better, not because you want to be right.
• You are a "Finisher." You don't just build the happy path. You handle the failure modes, the rollbacks, the alerts that actually mean something, the runbooks and the boring parts of the setup — because you respect the users and the stability of the system.
• Security is part of your job, not someone else's. Least privilege by default, secrets that never touch git or logs, every change checked for who it lets in. A client trusts us with their production; you don't spend that trust.
• You verify like there's no safety net — because there isn't. Plan, dry run, staging and a post-rollout look at the dashboards are part of "done," not a follow-up ticket. "Applied cleanly" is not a verification strategy.
• Будет плюсом: Bonus points for CKA/CKS, or a background in Math/Physics or competitive programming — we love abstract thinkers!

• 100% official employment and white salary.
• Comfortable offices steps away from the subway in Minsk or Tbilisi. We value output over strict hours, but we need you present.
• Complex problems are best solved face-to-face, at a whiteboard, not in a Slack thread. We value the energy of a real team.
• Competitive wage + Performance Bonuses. For those who stay and build with us, we offer a token-based equity program. We want you to own a piece of the value you create.
• Salary: $2500 – $4000 USD (Net. Based on skills & maturity. Stable salary + Bonus + Equity). As you help to unlock value and drive revenue, your compensation grows. We want a partner who shares in the victory.
• Beyond tokens, there's a partner track — it's not granted, but rather earned over years of honest and smart work for the company; one person in our history has walked it.