Cloud Operations Engineer

Job Ad (2026 05) We're looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer to run our production deployments and act as the operational point of contact for our US-based client team. The role has two modes. During release cycles, you focus on planning and executing deployments alongside the client. Between releases, you focus on improving the infrastructure and tooling that supports them: CI/CD pipelines, runbooks, observability, automation. The right person for this role is comfortable in Kubernetes and Helm, knows their way around a Linux shell, and is fine flexing into US working hours when there's a deployment in flight. You're someone who likes things to work, communicates clearly when they don't, and stays calm when production is on the line. WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO During deployment cycles: ● Plan, schedule, and execute production deployments in coordination with the client's engineering team ● Flex into US working hours (afternoon/evening Romania time) during deployment windows to align with the client on releases, change requests, and incident response ● Act as the day-to-day operational point of contact between our team and the client during release cycles ● Investigate and resolve deployment, networking, and infrastructure issues in production, escalating to the engineering team when needed ● Communicate deployment status, risks, and incidents clearly to both client and internal teams Between deployment cycles: ● Improve the deployment infrastructure and tooling: CI/CD pipelin