DevOps Engineer

🔊 This role requires working in the U.S. time zone

Ultimate Guitar is the best platform for music makers to learn and play songs they love. Home to the world's largest music community.‍

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the core infrastructure team responsible for the stability, reliability, and evolution of Muse Group’s production platforms. This team runs the infrastructure behind our global music products — including high-traffic websites and services used by millions of musicians worldwide. As a senior engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining highly available systems while helping modernize our infrastructure.

‍Key responsibilities

• Maintain and support the server infrastructure of Muse Group

• Ensure high system reliability and availability, targeting 99.9% uptime

• Manage and operate Kubernetes clusters‍

• Design and maintain comprehensive infrastructure monitoring systems

• Automate deployment pipelines and operational processes using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation

• Support product teams with production deployments and infrastructure needs‍

• Develop and improve internal developer tools and services‍

• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and optimize system performance

• Collaborate closely with engineers across product development teams

Required experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or system administration roles

• Deep expertise in Linux system administration and TCP/IP networking

• Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments‍

• Experience operating bare-metal infrastructure or hybrid environments (cloud + on-premise)‍

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)‍

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible

• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines‍

• Experience administering databases such as MySQL and Elasticsearch‍

• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, especially Grafana and Prometheus

• Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Python, or similar)

• Experience designing secure infrastructure and CI/CD systems‍

• Familiarity with application and infrastructure security best practices‍

• Ability to collaborate with engineers across teams and mentor colleagues

• Comfortable working in English (B1+)

Nice to Have

• Experience administering PHP-based production applications

• Advanced Git / GitHub workflows including branching strategies and code reviews

Benefits

Creativity every day: Make inspiring products for musicians, artists and creators – no day is the same.
Impactful work Influence the future of the music industry and change the lives of millions worldwide.
Work set up: We’ll make sure you’re set up for success with the right work equipment, whether that’s company-provided hardware or an equipment allowance.
Growth and development: Receive specialized training, language lessons, conferences and learning materials.
Team well-being: Support for your mental health and wellbeing, including confidential help during life’s tougher moments.