Senior Kubernetes Engineer

🔹 Senior Kubernetes Engineer (AWS EKS)

Employer: Data Force Group sp. z o.o. – over 18 years of delivering AI, Big Data & CRM analytics since 2005

Location: 100% Remote (within Poland)

Industry: Financial & Insurance (FinTech)

Start Date: Mid‑July 2025

🎯 Mission & Responsibilities

As our lead Kubernetes specialist, you’ll take full ownership of the EKS environment architecture and delivery. Key responsibilities include:

1. Terraform-first provisioning: Build and maintain fully managed EKS clusters using Terraform Enterprise—covering everything from IAM roles and node groups to cluster add-ons and autoscaling.
2. End-to-end CI/CD orchestration: Configure pipelines in GitHub, Bamboo, and Bitbucket for both infrastructure (Terraform) and application updates, promoting seamless integrations.
3. Security & governance by design: Implement AWS and Kubernetes best practices—least-privilege RBAC, IAM policies, encryption, audit logging, PodSecurityContext and network rules.
4. Observability infrastructure: Deploy centralized logging and monitoring using CloudWatch, Fluentd/Fluent Bit, Container Insights, optionally augmented with Prometheus or eBPF.
5. Operational documentation & enablement: Produce clear runbooks, architecture diagrams, and host knowledge-transfer sessions to empower the wider team.

📌 Key Outcomes

1. Terraform Enterprise architecture enabling repeatable and versioned EKS deployments (addons, VPC, IAM, node groups, autoscaling)
2. Robust CI/CD pipelines integrating infra and application lifecycle across GitHub, Bamboo, Bitbucket
3. Security baseline implementations aligning with AWS EKS best practices—RBAC, IAM, encryption, auditing
4. Observability platform delivering logs, metrics, and alerts across Kubernetes clusters
5. Role and namespace governance via RBAC policies scoped to least-privilege security
6. Complete documentation suite with diagrams, runbooks, and readiness training for internal teams

🛠 Core Technical Skills

1. AWS EKS (Kubernetes) – Advanced: cluster deployment, scaling, upgrades, security configurations
2. Terraform Enterprise – Advanced: modular IaC design, state management, multi-environment pipelines
3. CI/CD systems – Advanced: GitHub, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab CI integrations
4. AWS Services – Advanced: IAM, KMS, EC2, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, ECR, Cluster Autoscaler
5. Security & Governance – Advanced: RBAC, network policies, IAM roles/policies, encryption, audit trails
6. Observability Stack – Advanced: Fluentd/Fluent Bit, Prometheus, Container Insights, CloudWatch, eBPF
7. Scripting & Automation – Regular: Python and/or Bash
8. Linux Administration – Regular: system troubleshooting, networking, user and service management

✅ Required Experience

1. 6+ years of DevOps/Platform Engineering with deep AWS EKS expertise
2. Proven success building clusters via Terraform Enterprise at scale
3. Strong track record integrating and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and app workloads
4. Solid experience designing secure, observable, and maintainable Kubernetes environments
5. Proficient scripting skills (Python/Bash) and solid Linux admin capabilities
6. Fluent in English (C1+) and Polish (C2)—excellent communicator in remote settings

🌟 Why Join Us?

1. Lead Kubernetes vision—shape and own the EKS platform for our FinTech/insurance clients
2. Enterprise-grade challenges—security, compliance, efficiency in high-stakes environments
3. 100% Remote in Poland—flexible work with autonomy and ownership
4. Long-term impact—establish standards, drive best practices, mentor across the organization

📝 How to Apply

Send your CV and a summary of relevant AWS EKS + Terraform Enterprise projects (Git repos or code samples welcome). Focus on:

1. Cluster provisioning and IaC strategy
2. CI/CD orchestration for infra and apps
3. RBAC, security, and observability implementations

Interviews will be conducted in both Polish and English.

Start Date: Mid‑July 2025