Freelance DevOps Engineer

Freelance DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Freelance DevOps Engineer on behalf of a global pharmaceutical company. This role will focus on owning and evolving the infrastructure setup, ensuring scalable, secure, and well-documented cloud operations across multiple environments. The consultant will play a key role in strengthening the DevOps foundation, optimizing performance and costs, and supporting continued growth of the platform landscape. The ideal profile brings strong hands-on Azure expertise, solid Terraform capabilities, and a security-first mindset.

Role

Own and evolve the Terraform codebase, refactoring toward clean multi-environment Infrastructure as Code setups (development, staging, and production) using reusable modules.
Manage Azure Container Apps, including revisions, ingress and traffic-splitting, autoscaling, and blue/green-style rollouts.
* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to support build, test, deployment, and promotion across environments.
* Administer PostgreSQL and Redis using Azure managed services, including backups, sizing, and defining a basic high-availability strategy.
* Handle secrets management and rotation through Azure Key Vault, TLS and custom-domain provisioning using managed certificates, and DNS coordination.
* Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting through Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights to proactively identify issues before they impact users.
* Drive cost optimization and capacity planning as the number of webspaces grows.
* Document infrastructure, operational procedures, and on-call/runbook processes.

Profile

Solid hands-on experience with Azure, including Container Apps or AKS, Azure Container Registry (ACR), Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Redis, networking, and DNS.
Strong Terraform expertise, including modules, workspaces/environments, and state management.
* Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
* Strong knowledge of Docker and containerized application deployment.
* Solid Linux fundamentals and scripting skills, particularly in Bash.
* Experience with Azure Key Vault and a security-first approach to infrastructure management.
* Operates as a freelancer and has a Polish NIP number.

Nice to have

Experience deploying PHP and Symfony applications.
Familiarity with Varnish, CDN technologies, Azure Front Door, and Web Application Firewalls (WAF).
* Experience with observability tooling beyond Azure-native services.
* Database operations experience in multi-tenant environments, including migrations and zero-downtime deployments.
* Experience hardening infrastructure to meet compliance requirements.

Scope

Freelance assignment
Approximately around 30 hours per month
* Initial engagement of at least six months, with a strong likelihood of extension.

Timing

* ASAP start

Location

Preferably based in Kraków, Poland (KRK), although this is not a hard requirement.
Remote or hybrid setup can be considered for the right consultant.

See more and apply: https://jelber.dk/jobs/devopsengineer/