The Senior DevOps Engineer serves as a critical execution layer for Mercans' AI-native infrastructure strategy and broader product/engineering delivery and automation. Either based in Tartu, Estonia or Remote, reporting directly to the CTO, and collaborating with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, software engineers, data scientists, and SRE teams, this role operationalizes the technical vision through hands-on automation, GitLab DevSecOps pipelines, and resilient platform operations.
The position focuses on building and maintaining a secure, cost-efficient private cloud environment capable of hyperscale payroll processing and proprietary AI model training/inference, while providing deployment automation, feature flagging, and release orchestration to accelerate Product and Engineering team velocity.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Platform Automation & CI/CD
Support Product and Engineering Teams by implementing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid feature delivery, A/B testing, feature flagging, and blue-green deployments across all product lines,
enforcing architectural standards, security controls, and AI-first engineering patterns defined by the Enterprise Architecture Board.
Provide deployment automation for Product releases with GitLab CI/CD pipelines including shift-left security (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, IaC scanning, secret detection) integrated into merge requests, environment promotion gates, and production deployment approvals.
Enable Engineering velocity through self-service deployment templates, workplace provisioning APIs, and GitLab pipeline libraries that reduce cognitive load for application teams building payroll/HR features.
Automate Product experimentation with GitLab Feature Flags, progressive delivery patterns, and canary releases to enable Product Teams to test hypotheses with minimal deployment risk.
Private Cloud Operations
Automate infrastructure provisioning for the private cloud (Kube
📌 Senior DevOps Engineer (India)
🏢 Mercans
📍 India