DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer

Localization: hybrid Work in Krakow (5 days in the office/month)

Industry: Banking

Type of contract: B2B

Duration: Long-term cooperation

Summary:

The primary function of the DevOps Engineer role is to create and maintain CI/CD processes, specifically for migrating applications to the Azure cloud environment while ensuring automation, security, and operational excellence in development practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure (App Services, AKS, networking, subscriptions, identity) using Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/ARM/Terraform/Ansible)

• Build, optimize and support multi‑stack CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins + PowerShell + Ansible) for .NET (desktop & web) and JavaScript (Angular/React/Vue) applications

• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching and compliance enforcement across environments

• Define and enforce DevOps standards, branching strategies, artifact versioning and release governance

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and cost optimization; drive operational excellence and SLO adherence

• Integrate security controls (IAM, key management, secrets, policy, vulnerability scanning) into pipelines

• Partner with development teams to troubleshoot build, deployment and runtime issues (performance, dependencies, scalability)

• Contribute hands‑on to application build scripts, deployment scripts, and occasional feature or tooling code (.NET, PowerShell, Python, JavaScript)

• Maintain and evolve PowerShell and Bash automation modules; improve reusability and documentation 

• Drive continuous improvement: metrics, post‑incident reviews, root cause elimination, toil reduction

• Mentor engineers in DevOps best practices, cloud architecture, security and automation patterns

•  Ensure adherence to risk, control and audit frameworks; remediate gaps proactively

Key Requirements:

• 5+ yrs Azure (governance, networking, AKS, App Services, AAD, Key Vault)

• Strong IaC (Terraform/Bicep/ARM) + Ansible;

• Docker & container image lifecycle 

• Expert Jenkins CI/CD (pipelines-as-code, multibranch, shared libs) 

• Advanced scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python; automation & modules 

• .NET build/deploy expertise;

• Secure DevOps: IAM/RBAC, secrets, vuln & dependency scanning, Azure Policy 

• Monitoring & observability (Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights), cost & performance tuning 

• Git strategies, artifact versioning, release & compliance governance 

• Troubleshooting across infra, networking, containers, builds, runtime 

• Strong documentation & stakeholder communication;

  
  

Nice to Have (optional):

• Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions

• Migration experience 

• Terraform + Bicep; Helm, GitOps (Argo/Flux) 

• Advanced Azure security (Defender, Sentinel, PIM, Conditional Access) 

• FinOps & cost optimization 

• Performance/load testing (k6, JMeter) in CI/CD 

• Event & messaging (Service Bus, Event Hub, Kafka) 

• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry 

• OS hardening (Windows/Linux) & patch automation 

• Extra languages (Go, Rust) 

• Certifications (AZ‑400, AZ‑305, AZ‑104, CKA/CKAD, Terraform)