DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Architect

The Digital & Data department of Íslandsbanki is a collaborative group of software development professionals who work together following best practices and processes to deliver high-quality software solutions and capabilities.

We believe in agile methodologies and cross-team synergy in product ideation and delivery

We reach our development goals by encouraging team autonomy, employing a modern technology stack and automated processes, deployment pipelines, testing, and quality gates.

Íslandsbanki is currently looking for a DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Architect for its Enterprise Architecture team.

The primary responsibility of the role is to design, develop and operate a variety of solutions related to Platform Engineering for the Digital & Data department. The focus is to provide self-service capabilities, standardised tooling, and automated workflows for software delivery teams. Its primary goal is to improve developer experience, reduce cognitive load, and accelerate delivery of business value by abstracting infrastructure complexity and offering reusable components and services.

A key focus for the role is to upskill developers to self-service more around automation in the software delivery lifecycle with an additional focus on applying Generative AI (Github Copilot and M365 Copilot) to increase developer productivity.

Responsibilities and duties

• Pipeline development, tool integration, monitoring and optimization.

• Implementing templates and solutions to facilitate automatic testability, recoverability from failures and ensure built in privacy and security.

• Maintenance and creation of cross team shared solutions for common problems.

• Architectural advice on best practices for build and deployment processes.

• Creating and maintaining quality gates to ensure code meets predefined standards.

• Administration of Platform Solutions to support Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

Qualifications

• Passion for automating everything, integration and unit testing, REST API first development, data and event-driven architectures.

• Experience working with CI/CD solutions, YAML, Kubernetes, PowerShell and/or Bash scripting, and Git is required.

• Ability to learn new coding languages and technologies.

• Experience working with our technical stack is a plus but not a requisite: Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Itsio, ArgoCD, Github Enterprise, MSSQL, .NET, C#, VSCode, Github Copilot, OAuth2, Angular, Karate Testing Framework and Liquibase.

Education and Experience:

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent programming, problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or a software developer is preferred.

• Experience working in Banking or Fintech is a plus.

WHAT ARE PERKS AND BENEFITS:

Self-development:

• Upskilling trainings

• Up to 10% of your week dedicated to self-development

• Conference and education budget – you name events!

  
  

Physical wellbeing:

• Multisport card

• Healthcare plan

• Life insurance policy

• Restaurant pre-paid card

• On-site restaurant and fully equipped kitchen including healthy snacks and breakfasts/coffee/refreshments

  
  

Work arrangement:

• up to 150 PLN/hr on B2B (EC is an option too)

• 25 days 100% paid time off (B2B)

• Premium hardware (PC, screens, headphones)

• Company phone

• Flexible work schedule, emphasis on work-life balance

• Remote work model. But we ask you to participate in 3-day all team workshops that happen in general every 3 months.

• Modern office in the Center of Warsaw in CIC, offering yoga, game and wellness rooms, rooftop terrace, children's playroom, events and networking

• Occasional business travel to Iceland with some extra days on-site to visit the island

• Social events and team building activities