Lead DevOps Engineer

At Nortal we believe in thinking big – creating solutions that have a meaningful, far-reaching impact, whether through digitizing governments, improved healthcare, convenient telecom services or creating a competitive edge and agility for large businesses, industry, and manufacturing companies. Our projects have touched more than half a billion people’s lives worldwide, and we’re just getting started. Combining that with the unique experience of transforming Estonia into a digital leader, our vision is to build a Seamless Society.   

To reach our ambitious goals, we are looking for Lead DevOps Engineer.   

• Build team capacity and individual deployment skills providing scalable structure  
• Lead the team in setup and compliance with deployment and release standards  
• Monitor and improve deployment and release processes and procedures in line with latest release technologies 
• Facilitate communication within different technical teams within engineering 
• Participate in presales initiatives and project estimations for deployment activities 
• Hands on participation in CI/CD build for cloud-based applications and environments  
• Expertise on ways to automate and improve development and release processes 
• Good time management and ability to prioritize tasks among multiple or changing priorities 
• Prefer to work on agile software development projects with globally distributed teams

• Good communication skills (spoken and written) with fluent English as essential 
• Have at least 5 years of deployment experience and at least 2 years in leading teams 
• Own leadership skills necessary to build, manage and scale DevOps team to meet workload and efficiency  
• Proficient in tools required to automate, test, deploy, manage, and monitor applications 
• Deep knowledge of Jenkins, Azure and/or GitLab CI/CD tools 
• Working experience with Cloud environments (AWS, Azure or GCP) 
• Working experience with Kubernetes  
• Working experience with Microservice Architecture 
• Kong or Tyk knowledge is of an advantage 
• Excellent knowledge of infrastructure monitoring systems (e.g. The Elastic Stack, Zabbix, Nagios) 
• Strong background in Linux administration 

We like to say that Nortal is a right-sized company – big enough to undertake and impact influential projects yet small enough to care. At Nortal, your voice is heard, and everyone’s input matters. You solve critical problems for interesting customers from different domains. You work with experienced colleagues in a warm environment. You can execute your ideas in a reasonable time frame. And what you do and learn here are universally relevant and valuable. Last, but not least, Nortal is an agile company with low hierarchy – meaning heavy on common sense, light on rules, and substance is more important than titles!