Who We Are

We are a remote-first software as a service (SaaS) company, bringing true digital transformation to the global shipping industry. We enhance the way shipping professionals work by creating technology for the maritime industry and bringing it to market.

With over 85% of the world’s trade transported by sea, we have a huge opportunity to transform existing manual, offline and disparate processes into a tech-enabled and data-rich experience enabling better decision-making and fewer costly and time-consuming mistakes. Our premier platform, Sea, is the world’s first digital shipping platform that provides cloud-based applications focused on the pre-fixture and at-fixture space. These connect to create efficiencies and digitise workflows. We are The Intelligent Marketplace for Fixing Freight. To understand more about us, please visit https://www.sea.live/

The Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer; open, well organised and methodical, passionate about technology, to join our team. You will collaborate with product engineering teams and other specialists to deliver and support platforms that align to cloud well architected framework pillars. Our technical stack is primarily ADO, Azure cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Akamai but also includes some on-premise tooling (teamcity, octopus).

Responsibilities

• Be a principal for platform Engineering DevOps workstreams, policies, best practices, and technologies.  
• Enabling and implementing the delivery of Infrastructure as Code that is well governed, optimised, supportable and sustainable.
• Working with delivery teams and other platform team members to resolve bottlenecks, incidents and blockers both operationally and strategically
• Take part in the platform Engineering team on-call rota
• Administer the ADO Environment, and other platform tooling portals
• Leading and managing incident response activities, including immediate mitigation, and communicating effectively with stakeholders to manage expectations.
• Mentor team members and lead cross-functional collaboration to support business and engineering objectives
• Create, improve, and maintain infrastructure deployment pipelines written in Terraform & PowerShell.   
• Create guides and documentation to operate and maintain the infrastructure platform.   
• Security monitoring and incident response for cloud-native applications

Requirements

• Technical Adaptability: While our technical stack and skillset are quite specialized, we place higher value on individuals who show curiosity, passion, and a strong ability to adopt new capabilities, rather than those who simply meet all our existing technical requirements
• Flexible and Resilient: We are a developing organisation; team members should be able to adapt and be tenacious when working with others and delivering solutions.
• Strategic Thinking and Foresight: Able to anticipate future opportunities and challenges, solving immediate technical problems whilst aligning to longer term plans and goals
• Commitment and proactivity: We need a person who is able to act and shows initiative. Cares about the development of the platform and product.
• Openness and willingness to cooperate: Our team members work strongly together, are open to help, and are not afraid to ask questions. We need someone who fits into this kind of supportive and collaborative work style.

Core Skills:

• Demonstrable experience as a DevOps engineer working on automation tasks and automated testing.
• Able to design, implement and support CI/CD activities using Azure Devops, teamcity or octopus
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and excellent working knowledge of scripting infrastructure and automation capabilities using tooling such as Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI.
• Experience with configuration and administration of CDN and WAF technologies such as Akamai for optimizing and securing web content delivery.
• Strong communication skills to effectively share technical knowledge and influence decision making, including the ability to mentor and upskill other team members
• Good understanding of Azure security controls, capabilities, and best practices.
• Proficiency in understanding, designing and managing network configurations that support scenarios involving Azure, Kubernetes, Akamai WAF and CDN, and on-premise connectivity to tools such as TeamCity and Octopus
• Experience in engineering and automation of container orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge in setup and supporting Kubernetes environments using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using tools like HELM including deploying, managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in production
• Experience in working with or supporting static and dynamic application security testing tooling in the context of CI/CD and secure software delivery
• Able to methodically diagnose issues through logical reasoning and systematic testing. This includes being able to find the source of a problem quickly by isolating different components of the system
• Exposure to Azure cloud services such as Azure API Management, Azure Functions, App Services, Redis Caches, blob storage, SignalR.
• Experience with Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) in cloud first environment.

What you can expect

Despite our dynamic growth, we managed to maintain a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere of a tightly knit team that can implement complex projects comprehensively and effectively. Each of us knows what is expected from us and has adequate space and freedom of action. 

The actual work is important, but it’s also essential for us at Sea that we all stay happy, relaxed and motivated. That’s why we provide a wide range of benefits to all our employees:

• Private medical care (Luxmed)
• Voluntary group life insurance 
• MyBenefit or Multisport card 
• Language courses (English and German)
• Mentoring program and numerous internal pieces of training
• Employee referral program 
• Paid days off from services (B2B)
• A paid day off to care for your health - “Dzień na U” 
• Integration events, joint company trips, birthday celebrations and many other

What we offer

• Salary: DOE 28 000 - 32 000 PLN/month (B2B) or UoP
• Flexible working hours
• You choose how you work - from our office in Poznań or remotely from home, or like most of us, work hybrid.
• Strong focus on growth, interesting projects & people who enjoy working with each other!