Senior DevOps Engineer

Hays — Poland · Posted ~2 hours ago

Senior Full-time Hybrid

Skills

DevOps SRE systems engineering automation scripting AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes CI/CD infrastructure automation incident response root cause analysis security capacity planning cost optimization GitHub Copilot

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Join an engineering organization as a senior DevOps specialist responsible for improving platform reliability, security, and developer productivity. You will design CI/CD and infrastructure automation strategies, manage major incidents, optimize cloud costs and capacity, mentor other engineers, and apply modern AI-assisted development practices within security and compliance requirements.

Highlights

Senior engineering role focused on reliability, security, developer productivity, and cloud infrastructure. The position offers technical leadership, mentoring responsibilities, major incident ownership, cost optimization work, and thoughtful use of generative AI tools.

Description

For our client we are looking for Senior DevOps engineer with AWS experience. Contract od employment Hybrid model 2-3 times/week/office Role Overview • Lead platform initiatives that improve reliability, security, and developer productivity. • We encourage the thoughtful use of Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to boost innovation and productivity while adhering to our security and compliance standards. Key Responsibilities • Lead design of CI/CD strategies and infrastructure automation • Optimize reliability, performance, and security across services • Handle major incident response and root cause analysis (RCA) • Drive cost optimization and capacity planning • Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers and champion best practices Required Skills • Experience: min 5 years in DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineering • Strong automation and scripting skills • Deep expertise in at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP) • Advanced Kubernetes knowledge (multi-cluster, scaling, upgrades) • Track record designing resilient, scalable, and secure systems • In-depth knowledge of observability/monitoring and incident management • Proficiency in security hardening and compliance-minded engineering • Familiar with security and compliance practices (IAM, encryption, SOC2, PCI, HIPAA as relevant) Soft Skills • Clear, concise communication in English within distributed teams (B2/C1 level) • Growth mindset with a bias for automation, measurement, and continuous improvement • Pragmatic problem-solving and customer-centric thinking • Experience collaborating in Agile teams (Scrum/Kanban) Typical Tooling Stack • Languages & Scripting: Bash, Python, Go • CI/CD: GitHub Actions • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm • IaC: Terraform, Ansible • Cloud: AWS • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK • Security: Trivy, Snyk, HashiCorp Vault • Collaboration: GitHub, Jira, Confluence