Infrastructure Engineer
Softeta is an IT solutions provider based in Vilnius, Lithuania. With over 90 professionals located across Lithuania and Poland, we support companies in overcoming complex IT challenges through tailor-made software development and data-driven solutions. Softeta is looking for a Infrastructure Engineer to become a part of our vibrant team and will be work for our client from the data area.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain Kubernetes clusters on dedicated servers to support high‑throughput scraping APIs.
- Develop and manage infrastructure‑as‑code using Ansible or SaltStack to provision servers, deploy services and automate routine tasks.
- Deploy and tune Redpanda (or similar Kafka‑compatible streaming) clusters, Valkey caches and Elasticsearch indexes to ensure low latency and high availability.
- Implement monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics and related tools; build dashboards and respond to incidents.
- Plan capacity and optimise resource utilisation across hundreds of servers; participate in scaling decisions based on traffic patterns and new features.
- Collaborate with developers to design new microservices and ensure infrastructure meets performance and security requirements.
- Troubleshoot complex system issues, from network bottlenecks to container runtime problems, and implement durable fixes.
- Contribute to documentation, post‑mortems and continuous improvement of our DevOps practices.
Requirements
- Solid Linux system administration skills and proven experience operating large‑scale infrastructures.
- Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments (on cloud or bare‑metal).
- Proficiency with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, SaltStack or similar.
- Familiarity with at least some of our stack (Redpanda/Kafka, Valkey/Redis, Elastic, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics);
- Ability to script in Bash or Python and a good understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you enjoy partnering with developers and other teams to deliver reliable systems.
Benefits
- Diverse and technically challenging projects;
- Flexible working hours and hybrid or remote workplace model;
- Flexible schedule and Agile/SCRUM environment;
- Technical equipment which you can choose.