DevOps Manager - Edge

Timișoara

R&D – Engineering - DevOps /

Full Time Permanent /

Hybrid

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Everseen: A leader in vision AI solutions for the world’s leading retailers.

The Role

As the DevOps Manager for the Edge team, you will lead and manage the team responsible for the DevOps owned components from our edge solution as well as packaging, maintaining, and securing our main product on the edge.

Your primary responsibility is to oversee the creation of robust, scalable edge deployments (utilizing OpenShift, k0s, Docker, and Podman) that will be handed over to our Operations team for deployment at scale.

In this role, you will own the CI/CD pipelines for building and delivering our product, manage vulnerability scanning and CVE remediations across the entire SSDLC pipeline, and oversee monitoring infrastructure, system setups, and automations for our Hardware as a Service (HaaS) initiative.

To deliver a highly secure and functional solution, you will foster tight, day-to-day collaboration with key partners, including the Development teams, Operations to ensure seamless handoffs, Validation/QA to guarantee platform stability, and Security to ensure compliance and threat mitigation across all edge environments.

Having a good understanding of our product, its components and their interactions is essential.

Ensuring timely, high-quality handling of requests and product delivery will directly impact customer satisfaction.

This role will allow you to take your career to the next level, working alongside industry experts and scaling an already successful global organization. You will work with cutting edge technologies in both Cloud and Edge environments.

What You'll Do

Develop and improve team capabilities in automation, edge deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting and DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives and ensure alignment with business goals.

Ensure the team delivers high quality and on time edge product releases and critical vulnerability patches.

Drive the solution to configure and setup the systems for our HaaS initiative.

Drive the team to research new automations and technologies to further polish and improve our products.

Leadership

Leads the DevOps Edge team. Manages the day-to-day running of the team and the projects.

Overall responsibility for the projects that the team is working on. Acts as a point of escalation for the team.

Works with senior leadership to create strategic goals for their team. Measures the performance of those goals.

Teaching and Sharing Culture

Shares skills, knowledge, and expertise with the team.

Fosters a culture of collaboration and continuous learning by organizing training sessions, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Develop, extend and maintain Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for building DevOps owned components, packaging and delivering our edge solution and creating CI/CD templates and guidelines to be used by the wider engineering teams.

Keeps up-to-date on best practices and new technologies.

Collaborates on technical architecture and system design.

Evaluates existing components or systems to determine integration requirements and to ensure the final solutions meet organizational needs.

Interacts with cross-functional management on high-profile technical operations while providing clear feedback and leadership to support teams.

Authoring knowledgebase articles and driving internal knowledge sharing.

Works in off-routine hours occasionally. Works with customers and travel to international customer or partner locations.

Collaborating With

Product and PM teams: Collaborate with Product, PM and PMO teams during the development lifecycle to create estimations, specifications and plan work for the Edge team.

Engineering teams: Work closely with the wider DevOps engineering teams, your manager, software developers and QA engineers to understand requirements, provide technical guidance, develop edge solutions, tools and automations and ensure smooth functioning and deployment of our product.

Security Team: Collaborate with the team to ensure the security of our edge solutions.

Our Tech Stack

At Everseen, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology. Our stack includes:

CI/CD Tools: GitLab CI/CD
Cloud Platforms: Azure (AKS, Registry), GCP (GKE)
Edge Platforms: Docker, Podman, Kubernetes(k0s) and Openshift
Edge OS: RHEL, Ubuntu
Automation Tools: Ansible (AWX), Jinja, Terraform
Deployment Tools: Helm, Flux CD
Observability: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana alloy, Grafana dashboards, Thanos
Databases: Elasticsearch, MongoDB
Authentication: Keycloak
Scripting Languages: Python, Bash

Profile and Skills

Experience: Proven 3+ years experience as a DevOps Manager and previous experience as a DevOps/Automation Engineer, Linux Administrator or a combination of these roles.

Linux & System Services: Basic understanding of local and distributed filesystems (ext4, xfs, NFS), storage migration, SSH tunneling, web servers (Nginx, Apache), reverse proxying, and troubleshooting (logs, performance, connectivity).

Containerization & Orchestration: Basic knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift, and virtualization solutions.

Configuration Management & CI/CD:  Experience with Ansible/Ansible Tower (or similar tools like Salt, Puppet, Chef), Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD (or equivalents like CircleCI, TeamCity), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (or alternatives like Azure Automation, CloudFormation).

Cloud & Version Control: Familiarity with Azure Cloud (or AWS, GCP), GIT for system versioning, and basic understanding of backup solutions.

Scripting & Programming: Experience in Bash scripting and Python for automation and development tasks.

Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring tools like Node exporter, Prometheus, Grafana, and log collection solutions (e.g Promtail, Grafana alloy).

Databases: Basic understanding of relational (MySQL, MariaDB) and NoSQL (Elasticsearch, MongoDB) databases, with hands-on experience writing queries.

API & Data Formats: Hands-on experience with JSON and making Restful API calls.

Software Engineering & Architecture: Broad understanding of software engineering principles, architecture, programming languages, frameworks, and industry trends, particularly in the AI space.

Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills

Possesses strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, leveraging data to inform product decisions. This skill is essential for identifying market opportunities, optimizing product features, and addressing challenges effectively.

Communication Skills

Excellent presentation, oral, and written communication skills. Fluent business English is a requirement.

Customer Focus

A passionate advocate for determining and delivering solutions with a high level of customer satisfaction.
Ability to prioritize customer experience as a top priority in solution delivery.

Interest in Learning and Growth Mindset

Demonstrated interest in learning and a strong desire to expand knowledge in their respective field.
Eagerness to explore new technologies, methodologies, and best practices to enhance skills and capabilities.
Results-oriented attitude, with a drive to achieve objectives efficiently.

Technical Leadership

Capable of leading and engaging in technical discussions with stakeholders and beginning to lead smaller projects. Provide strategic and thought leadership to the team and stakeholders.
Advises technology leaders, our product team, and other internal stakeholders to make technology decisions that grow and improve our products.

Leadership

Leads matrixed project teams from across the organization.
Coaches and mentors less experienced members of the team.

About Everseen

Shrink and inefficiency cost global retailers more than a hundred billion dollars each year. But Everseen is changing that equation. We are a leader in vision AI, transforming business operations for global retailers by reducing shrink, improving operations, and delivering a better customer experience.

Supporting 11 of the top 20 global retailers, Everseen’s AI innovations help retailers save millions of dollars every month. Its flagship product, Evercheck, is deployed in 10,000 retail stores and 150,000 checkouts globally. Everseen operates at unmatched scale, processing over 15 million transactions, and more than six petabytes of video data, daily.

Trusted by major food, drug, mass, and specialty retailers around the world - including Kroger, Meijer, and Woolworths - we also partner with leading hardware, AI, and cloud computing providers such as Google, NVIDIA, NCR, and Dell.

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Everseen has over 700 employees globally, with a European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, a U.S. headquarters in Miami, and hubs in Romania, Serbia, India, Australia, and Spain.

We are a dedicated team of inventors, research scientists, engineers, AI experts and retail industry veterans. Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, and high standards. We take ownership of outcomes, prioritise our customers, operate as one team, move quickly with purpose, and continually raise the bar in everything we deliver.

Our Culture

Our culture is built on ownership and accountability, we own outcomes, not tasks. We stay relentlessly customer-first, letting their needs shape our priorities and decisions.

We work as one team: we challenge ideas, align quickly, and commit together. We move with pace, without compromising on simplicity or quality. And every day, we raise the bar, strengthening our talent, pushing innovation forward, and maximizing our impact.

Our Values

We OWN THE OUTCOME. No silos, no excuses.

We ARE CUSTOMER-FIRST. They guide our decisions.

We ARE ONE TEAM. Debate, decide, commit.

We MOVE WITH PACE. With simplicity and quality.

We RAISE THE BAR. On talent, innovation and impact.

Our Commitment

Everseen is committed to creating an environment where everyone can succeed. Our employees should feel a sense of belonging, have an opportunity to grow their careers, and feel free to be their most authentic selves. Everseen takes great pride in the diversity of its global workforce, and insists upon a safe, inclusive workplace where our differences are our collective strength. We treat each other with dignity, and respect, and require all employees, officers, and directors to seek to understand the importance and value to Everseen of diversity, and inclusion.

Everseen is committed to creating a safe environment for all employees and has a zero tolerance policy for bias and discrimination of any kind. Our work environment is one without offensive, hostile, or intimidating conduct, whether verbal, written or physical, in nature. Everseen will not tolerate prejudice or discrimination of any kind including without limitation, where based on aspects such as, race, colour, sex, gender, religion, age, family status, disability of any kind, sexual orientation.

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