Storm
Senior DevOps Engineer
- Baghdad
- Part time
- 7 hours ago
- Salary
- Not stated
- Deadline
- Nov 9, 2026
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DevOps Engineer · Baghdad
Storm is hiring an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer on a part-time or freelance basis in Baghdad to deploy and manage production infrastructure for a spatial data platform.
About the job
Storm is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join us on a part-time / freelance, project-based engagement.
The engineer will be responsible for deploying and managing the production infrastructure for a microservices-based spatial data platform built around PostgreSQL/PostGIS, containerized backend services, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools.
This opportunity is suitable for an experienced DevOps Engineer who can work independently while coordinating closely with the Storm technical team.
Responsibilities
- Provision and configure the required hosting environment and Kubernetes clusters.
- Build a scalable and highly available production infrastructure.
- Deploy and manage a Highly Available PostgreSQL/PostGIS environment.
- Configure replication, automated backups, recovery procedures, and database availability mechanisms.
- Containerize and deploy Martin, Pelias, and Valhalla services.
- Configure an API Gateway for rate limiting, edge caching, API keys, JWT authentication, and traffic management.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and centralized logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki/ELK.
- Automate scheduled data ingestion, system health checks, and recurring operational tasks using CronJobs, n8n, Bash, and SQL.
- Ensure the environment is secure, scalable, maintainable, and properly documented.
- Provide technical documentation and knowledge transfer to the Storm technical team.
Requirements
- Proven hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
- Strong experience with Docker and containerized architectures.
- Practical experience deploying and managing High Availability PostgreSQL environments.
- Experience with database replication, backup, recovery, and production availability.
- Experience implementing and configuring modern API Gateways.
- Strong understanding of production monitoring, logging, security, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
- PostgreSQL 16
- PostGIS 3.4
- High Availability, replication, automated backup and recovery
- Martin – Vector Tiles
- Pelias – Geocoding
- Valhalla – Routing
- Kong, APISIX, or Traefik
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki / ELK
- n8n
- Kubernetes CronJobs
- Bash / SQL scripting
- osmium / osm2pgsql
- Experience with the following would be a strong advantage: PostgreSQL / PostGIS, OpenStreetMap data pipelines, osmium / osm2pgsql, Martin, Pelias, Valhalla, n8n, Geospatial or mapping platforms
Skills
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- PostGIS
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Bash
- SQL
Details
- Profession
- DevOps Engineer
- Category
- IT & Software
- Experience
- Senior
How to apply
- Interested candidates can send their CV to hr@stormnetwork.net
- Please use “Senior DevOps Engineer” as the email subject.