DevOps Engineer

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a DevOps Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Poland. Our client is one of the largest food retailers in the world, operating thousands of stores in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Europe. The company carries out business through multi-format stores and online. It operates stores in various formats differentiated by size and range of products sold, including large, small, dotcom only, and one-stop. They offer fresh food, drinks, bakery, grocery, home and entertainment products, baby products, clothing, household appliances, frozen food, pets, health and beauty products, consumer electronics, and electrical goods. It also provides consultancy, retail banking, and insurance services. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, the UK.

The People Transformation Team is building a next-generation platform of continuous integration and delivery tools for the teams across the colleague area. Your contribution will directly impact how the client creates, releases, and monitors the production application and profoundly affect the development experience of hundreds of highly skilled engineers.

Office work – 3 days/week expected (Wednesday + 2 more days).

Requirements

• 4+ years of commercial experience building continuous integration and delivery solutions.
• Knowledge of Terraform.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes. Essential experience in Kubernetes environment and infrastructure/networking.
• Experience with Azure, AWS or other cloud solutions. Preferably experience with Azure and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with  Jenkins.
• Understanding of GitHub Actions.
• Problem-solving, analysis, and computational skills. Be comfortable designing infrastructure and sharing knowledge across the team. When tackling problems, you can take a thorough and logical approach to solving them, and you retain ownership through to resolution.
• Understanding of designing and supporting systems for high availability and scalability.
• Excellent written and spoken English skills.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of ArgoCD.

Responsibilities

Leveraging tools like Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, and others and services like Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps, you will be responsible for the success of many other talented engineers on their journey to deliver high-quality, performant applications. You’ll be part of an agile team of industry-leading engineers based on the company’s People Transformation. You will create continuous integration and delivery tools for the area in the future, solve problems, and develop new features through quality, scalable, performant, and maintainable technical solutions. Your team’s solutions will have a global reach and impact hundreds of thousands of the company’s colleagues. Whilst specific responsibilities will depend upon the changing needs of the business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures: 

• Focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery;
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security;
• Contribute to the definition of features for services owned by your team;
• Effectively communicate your and your team’s progress to your team members, manager, and other client’s colleagues.

We offer

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
• Annual performance appraisals.
• Flexibility in workspace, either remote or in our welcoming office.
• Comprehensive medical insurance after one month.
• MultiSport card with access to 2500 sports facilities all over Poland
• Bonuses for recommendations of new employees.
• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, other activities.
• 15 vacation days, 10 national holidays, sick leaves, family days off.
• Educational activities reimbursement on the monthly basis.
• Free webinars, meetups and conferences organized by Svitla.
• Gifts for anniversaries, New Year, children and more.
• Fun corporate celebrations and activities.
• Awesome team, friendly and supportive community!

About Svitla

Svitla Systems is a global trusted IT solutions company headquartered in California, with business and development offices through out the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Svitla is an outspoken advocate of workplace flexibility, best known for its well-established remote culture, individual approach to our teammate’s professional and personal growth, and family-like environment.

Since 2003, Svitla has served a wide range of clients, from innovative start-ups in California to mega-large corporations such as Ingenico, Amplience, InvoiceASAP and Global Citizen. At Svitla, developers work with clients’ teams directly, building lasting and successful partnerships, as a result of seamless integration with on-site processes.

Svitla Systems’ global mission is to build a business that contributes to the well-being of our partners, personnel and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Join us!