Azure DevOps Engineer (Hybrid – Krakow, 3 days/week)

Location: Krakow, Hybrid (3 days/week)

Role Summary

We are looking for a senior Azure DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and operate secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure in Azure. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Terraform, AKS/Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, and either Jenkins or Azure DevOps/GitLab for pipeline orchestration. Exposure to data engineering stacks (Spark, Databricks, Azure Data Lake) is a plus for enabling analytics and ML workloads in production.

Experience:

• 8–10 years total IT experience

• 4–5 years relevant experience specifically in Azure DevOps practices

• 5+ years hands-on with: GitLab, Terraform, Azure, Azure DevOps (ADO), Azure Data Lake, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Spark, Databricks

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO), Jenkins, and GitLab CI, including multi-stage deployments, environment promotions, approvals, and rollback strategies

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform (modules, remote state, workspaces) for Azure resources: AKS, VNets, Key Vault, ACR, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), and supporting services

• Operate and secure Kubernetes (AKS) clusters: networking, ingress, scaling, node pools, policy, and security baselines

• Package and release workloads using Helm; manage chart versioning, values, and environment overlays

• Set up end-to-end observability: Grafana dashboards, Prometheus/Alertmanager integrations, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, actionable alerting tied to SLOs

• Integrate and automate deployments for Spark/Databricks jobs and data pipelines, including secrets, configuration, and scheduling

• Embed DevSecOps controls across pipelines: image and IaC scanning, SBOM, supply-chain security, secrets management via Azure Key Vault

• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct RCAs, and improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency

• Create reusable templates/libraries and documentation; mentor engineers and champion best practices

Must-Have Skills

CI/CD:

• Azure DevOps (ADO) 5+ yrs: YAML pipelines, environments, artifacts, approvals, service connections

• GitLab CI 5+ yrs: runners, pipeline-as-code, templates, artifacts

• Jenkins (nice to have both Jenkins & ADO/GitLab)

Terraform 5+ yrs:

• Modules, remote backends, state management, workspaces, policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest), PR validations; strong Azure provider experience

Azure 5+ yrs:

• Core services (Compute, Networking, Storage), Azure Data Lake (ADLS), Key Vault, ACR, RBAC/IAM

Kubernetes / AKS 5+ yrs:

• Cluster operations, CNI networking, ingress controllers (Nginx/AGIC), HPA/VPA, Pod Security, PDBs, node pools, taints/tolerations

Helm:

• Authoring and managing charts, values, release strategies (blue/green, canary)

Observability:

• Grafana dashboards, Prometheus metrics/alerts; Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, KQL basics

Containers & Automation:

• Dockerfile best practices (multi-stage, non-root), scripting (Bash/PowerShell; Python/Groovy a plus)

Data Engineering Integration:

• Spark and Databricks CI/CD integration, job orchestration, configuration, and basic performance awareness

Good-to-Have

• GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), Helmfile, Kustomize

• Security: container/IaC scanning (Trivy/Anchore/Checkov), image signing, supply-chain (SLSA)

• Networking/Security: Azure Firewall, Private Link, VNets/Peering, NSGs, WAF

• IaC at scale: Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, Terragrunt, Atlantis

• Cost optimization for AKS and data workloads (spot nodes, autoscaling, right-sizing)

• Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), API gateways, Zero Trust patterns

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• Proven success running production-grade systems on Azure + AKS with automated CI/CD and Terraform

• Experience partnering with data engineering teams on Databricks/Spark/ADLS deployments

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📩 If you’re interested and meet the qualifications, please apply or send your CV to Veranika Lazarava at veranika.lazarava@dcvtechnologies.co.uk