Unable to connect to the remote server from Gitlab Runner using Docker Executor

GitLab CI/CD
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Previously I’m able to ssh to the remote user using these steps

deploy_to_staging:
    stage: deploy
    before_script:
    - 'which ssh-agent || (apk add openssh-client)'
    - eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
    - echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - chmod 700 ~/.ssh
    script:
    - export SSH_DEPLOY_SERVER="ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${DEPLOY_USER}@${DEPLOY_SERVER}"
    - ${SSH_DEPLOY_SERVER} "whoami";

Then I’ve added more job that ssh to the different remote server

deploy_to_production:
    stage: deploy
    before_script:
    - 'which ssh-agent || (apk add openssh-client)'
    - eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
    - echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PROD" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - chmod 700 ~/.ssh
    script:
    - export SSH_DEPLOY_SERVER_PROD="ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${DEPLOY_USER}@${DEPLOY_SERVER_PROD}"
    - ${SSH_DEPLOY_SERVER_PROD} "whoami";

as you can see, everything almost the same except $SSH_PRIVATE_KEY and $SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PROD which I already added in the Variables section on Gitlab project. Both PRIVATE KEY got from id_rsa on specific remote server under /home/<DEPLOY_USER>/.ssh/id_rsa

But once running the pipeline in job deploy_to_production the error occurs

$ which ssh-agent || (apk add openssh-client)
/usr/bin/ssh-agent
$ eval “$(ssh-agent -s)”
Agent pid 21
$ echo “$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PROD” | tr -d ‘\r’ | ssh-add -
Identity added: (stdin) (user@x.x.x.x)
$ mkdir -p ~/.ssh
$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
$ export SSH_DEPLOY_PROD_SERVER=“ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ${DEPLOY_USER}@${DEPLOY_PROD_SERVER}”
$ ${SSH_DEPLOY_PROD_SERVER} “whoami;”
Warning: Permanently added ‘x.x.x.x’ (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
user@x.x.x.x: Permission denied (publickey,password).

Since I’m using Docker executor that always provides a clean environment on every job, I’m wondering why the same procedure doesn’t work.

Please help!