DevOps Specialist, Mapon, LV

Mapon is looking for an experienced DevOps Specialist to join our Infrastructure Team.

This team is responsible for:

• Maintaining, scaling, and developing our server infrastructure
• Developing and supporting shared back-end components used across our products
• Providing test and development environments and deployment processes
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Ensuring IT security and reliable data backups
• Monitoring systems to ensure stability and performance

As part of this team, you will work closely with other senior colleagues to improve and maintain our CI/CD processes in GitLab, manage our Docker environments, ensure smooth data replication to our internal BI data warehouse, and collaborate with development teams to support and optimize development workflows.

What you’ll do

• CI/CD and developer workflows
  • Maintain and improve our GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines
  • Optimize build, test, and deployment processes across teams
• Containerized environments
  • Administer, monitor, and optimize Docker environments used for development and testing
• Data pipeline reliability
  • Manage and monitor replication pipelines from production databases to our internal Data Warehouse (ETL)
  • Ensure reliability and automation of these pipelines (data calculations and transformations are handled by product teams)
  • Maintain and update tools used in pipelines (e.g., Apache NiFi)
• Infrastructure and automation
  • Support and improve Infrastructure as Code practices (Ansible today, room to expand further)
  • Work on optimizations and automation in our on-prem setup
• Monitoring and alerting
  • Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)
• Collaboration and improvement
  • Work with internal development teams to suggest and implement improvements in tools, workflows, and infrastructure
  • Contribute to the stability, performance, and security of our systems

Note: DevOps at Mapon does not include on-call responsibilities. Incidents are currently handled by senior developers across product teams.

What we expect

• Experience with GitLab CI/CD
• Solid understanding of Docker and containerized environments
• Strong skills with MySQL (queries, data handling, optimization)
• Understanding of data warehouses and denormalized data structures
• Familiarity with ETL concepts and data pipeline reliability (experience with Apache NiFi or similar is a plus)
• Scripting/programming experience (e.g., Bash, Python, PHP, Node.js)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)
• Understanding of data security and privacy principles (GDPR)
• Positive attitude, initiative, and drive to continuously improve skills and tools

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Kubernetes or Podman knowledge

We Offer:

• Salary starting from 3000 EUR before taxes (compensation depends on knowledge and experience)
• Paid lunches and fruit in the office;
• Personalized employee benefits after the probation period, from which you can choose the most suitable for you:
• Health insurance (including mental health support, dental care, and massage courses),
• Additional sports programs,
• Employer contributions to your 3rd pension pillar,
• Additional paid holidays, including your birthday;
• An annual learning budget for enhancing your skills and knowledge, from seminars to book purchases;
• Free parking at the office;
• Flexible working hours: the possibility to start your workday anytime before 11:00;
• Additional paid leave for various life events, including paid study leave;
• The opportunity to work outside Latvia for up to 90 days a year;
• The option to work remotely or in our cozy office;
• A dedicated budget for team-building events;
• Paid participation in major sports events such as Stirnu Buks and the Riga Marathon;
• Interest groups and activities within the Draugiem Group community.

Interested? Send us your Resume!

*We provide detailed feedback on interview performance and/or the technical task only to candidates who have reached the final stage of the selection process.

Mapon (reg.nr. 40003800531)