Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer

Location: Belgrade/ Novi Sad

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EV Connect believes in electricity as a fuel to help solve the challenges we face with climate change and pollution.

That's why we've developed one of the most flexible and reliable EV charging solutions on the market, giving businesses and organizations the tools they need to support a growing number of EV drivers.

As we continue to scale, the reliability, security, and maturity of our cloud platform are critical to our success.

We are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team and help lead the next stage of our infrastructure, developer platform, and software delivery maturity.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who has deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, automation, and secure software delivery.

The ideal candidate has experience working in a platform engineering environment and has helped engineering teams move faster through reusable tools, standardized patterns, self-service capabilities, and clear operational guardrails.

You will help define and implement platform capabilities that improve release reliability, developer productivity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and operational excellence across our SaaS platform.

What You'll Do


* Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of EV Connect's cloud infrastructure, DevOps platform, and software delivery practices.



* Build and improve reusable developer platform capabilities, including CI/CD workflows, Terraform modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation.



* Develop standardized workflows and paved paths that help engineering teams build, deploy, observe, and operate services safely and independently.



* Improve release reliability by reducing manual coordination, strengthening automated validation, improving deployment guardrails, and increasing production visibility.



* Partner with Engineering, QA, Product, Security, and Architecture teams to improve deployment safety, release confidence, and developer velocity.



* Drive improvements to Kubernetes-based deployment strategies, including canary deployments, rollback patterns, release orchestration, and production readiness practices.



* Provide technical leadership for AWS cloud architecture, EKS, networking, IAM, observability, infrastructure automation, and operational resiliency.



* Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident follow-up practices.



* Embed security, compliance, and governance into DevOps workflows, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, IAM/RBAC, policy enforcement, and secure cloud configuration.



* Identify operational gaps and lead initiatives t...