DevOps Engineer - Croatia

We're looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join Space Inch and take up work with the Core team of one of our long-standing clients, a leading investment and asset management firm in the US.

You'll work alongside Space Inch teammates and the client's own engineers, who together make up a large part of five combined teams spanning infrastructure, SRE, and various application teams that build on top of them. The work sits at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering .

Beyond keeping pipelines and clusters healthy, a big part of the job is treating the underlying infrastructure as a product: building the self-service tooling, reusable modules, and paved paths that let the application teams ship safely without reinventing deployment, observability, or security every time.

Much of this work is greenfield, so there's real scope to shape how the platform looks for years to come rather than just maintaining what already exists. If you like owning infrastructure that other engineers depend on, and want a seat in the architectural conversations that decide where it goes, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Mission, Vision, and Values At Space Inch , we prioritize alignment with our clients and team, ensuring a deep understanding of their needs. We are committed to delivering exceptional work while supporting the personal and professional growth of our team members. About Working at Space Inch

Global Footprint: Our team is around 80 people, primarily based in Croatia, but also with members in South America, the EU, and the US; the product team mostly being in the US, and engineering in Croatia and Brazil

Remote-First: We are remote-first, but occasional travel may be required, e.g. for our annual company retreat, or meeting the client

Long-Term Vision: We work on end-to-end projects with a long-term vision

True Work-Life Balance : We strongly support work-life balance for our team members, even though we work in different time zones

Requirements Expertise in

GitHub CI/CD, container registries, and upstream/downstream systems

Kubernetes across multiple environments and regions, including Helm and Flux (or Argo)

Azure (Azure Cloud, DevOps, Artifacts, Container Registry) or a comparable Cloud Provider

Terraform and Ansible

Experience with

AI agents

Linux

Python or Bash

Docker

DataDog

Managing databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)

Working arrangement

Full-time availability (40 hours per week)

Standard working hours with occasional adjustments to keep good overlap with the client, who works on GMT (London) and US Eastern time (New York). Expect at least 3 hours of daily overlap .

Key responsibilities

Build and maintain CI/CD across GitHub Actions, container registries, and the deployment pipelines the application teams rely on

Run and improve Kubernetes across multiple environments and regions, managing releases with Helm and Flux

Develop reusable Terraform and Ansible modules so infrastructure stays consistent, version-controlled, and easy for teams to adopt

Expand the self-service platform capabilities that let application teams provision, deploy, and monitor their own services within sensible guardrails

Strengthen observability and reliability with DataDog, and help define the SLOs, alerting, and on-call practices that keep services healthy

Support the ongoing migration to Azure, from architecture decisions through to rollout

Work closely with cloud service providers, Azure in particular, managing the relationship, capacity, and cost so the platform stays well-supported and the teams building on it get what they need

Integrate as a full member of the client's DevOps, infrastructure, and core engineering teams rather than an outside contributor

Take part in strategic and architectural discussions, and advocate for changes that improve how the wider engineering org builds and ships

Qualities for success

A strong grasp of building reliable Kubernetes pipelines and platforms

Creativity in problem-solving and in architecting complex migration work

Excellent communication, both for collaborating internally and for advocating change to the teams using your infrastructure

An ownership mentality: you take charge of tasks and have autonomy over how you implement them

This role is right for you if you enjoy

Deciding for yourself how to approach a problem

Work that rewards strategic thinking and a deep understanding of the whole system

Collaborating across teams and making a visible difference to how they deploy

This role is not right for you if

You prefer purely operational work that follows a fixed runbook with little room to change it

You're uncomfortable taking initiative or proposing new ideas

You avoid cross-team collaboration

Benefits What's In It for You

A real say in key architectural decisions, not just their implementation

Work inside a top investment firm on problems that will make you a stronger engineer and leader anywhere you go next

Room to grow with the DevOps, infrastructure, and core engineering team, which opens up further leadership and deeper technical opportunities

Compensation Monthly salary: 4,000 - 6,000 EUR gross 1, based on experience and skills

Remote-first setup with optional use of our Zagreb office

Stay active : Multisport card or wellness subsidy

Health & Wellbeing: 100% paid sick leave + annual health checkups

Extra perks: Christmas bonus and referral bonus

Grow with us : Education budget to fuel learning and professional development

Space Inch is not responsible for any job boards scraping this ad without showing the position as remote, but London, UK exclusive. Applicants from other countries will not be considered. Space Inch is committed to providing an environment of equal employment opportunity.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, and termination. Space Inch believes in treating all employees and applicants with respect and dignity, fostering a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. Originally posted on Himalayas