DevOps Engineer

ALSO Holding AG; Poland; On-site; PLN 258,620 - 387,930; Full time

Job summary

ALSO is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a small, experienced team. You will work across an enterprise environment blending established platforms with modern cloud services and ongoing modernization efforts.

This hands-on role requires ownership, strong troubleshooting, and collaboration across teams to drive initiatives from analysis through delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting across OS, infra, apps, and networks.
• Solid Windows Server and Linux experience.
• Ability to drive initiatives from analysis to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Drive DevOps initiatives from planning through implementation.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across apps, OS, infra, networks and databases.
• Build and maintain IaC and configuration management solutions.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and releases.
• Support Azure, Windows and Linux environments.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerts, and operational visibility.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis and production troubleshooting.
• Improve system security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Coordinate dependencies and communicate risks and progress clearly.
• Create and maintain technical docs, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in operational support and on-call activities.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

SRE

Ownership

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Windows Server

Linux

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

Git/GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Azure Monitor/Prometheus/Grafana

SQL Server/Azure SQL

IIS/NGINX/HAProxy

Job description

ALSO looks forward to working with you as a

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a small, experienced team.

You will work across a diverse enterprise environment that combines established platforms, modern cloud services, and ongoing modernization initiatives. The role requires strong technical foundations, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to quickly understand complex systems and dependencies.

This is a hands‑on senior position for someone who is comfortable taking ownership, driving technical initiatives from analysis through delivery, and collaborating effectively across teams.

Your responsibilities

• Drive DevOps initiatives from investigation and planning through implementation.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across applications, operating systems, infrastructure, networks, and databases.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code and configuration management solutions.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release processes.
• Support and enhance Microsoft Azure, Windows, and Linux environments.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility.
• Support incident response, root‑cause analysis, and production troubleshooting.
• Improve system security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Coordinate technical dependencies and communicate risks, decisions, and progress clearly.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in operational support and on‑call activities where required.

Your profile

• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across operating systems, infrastructure, applications, and networks.
• Strong practical knowledge of Windows Server and Linux.
• Ability to take ownership and drive technical initiatives from analysis through delivery.
• Comfortable working independently and collaborating within a small team.
• Ability to communicate technical risks, decisions, dependencies, and progress clearly.
• Practical understanding of Agile delivery and a shared DevOps culture.
• Good spoken and written English.

Technical skills

We are looking for strong practical experience in the core areas below and working knowledge across the wider technology landscape. We do not expect expert‑level knowledge of every listed technology.

• Scripting: Bash and PowerShell
  Experience automating operational, deployment, and administrative tasks.
• Operating systems: Windows Server and Linux
  Understanding of services, processes, permissions, filesystems, package management, certificates, logs, and performance troubleshooting.
• Networking: OSI model, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, routing, proxies, firewalls, and load balancing
  Ability to diagnose connectivity, certificate, name‑resolution, routing, and protocol‑related issues.
• Web servers and proxies: IIS, NGINX, and HAProxy
  Understanding of web hosting, reverse proxies, routing, TLS termination, health checks, and load balancing.
• Version control: Git with platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure Repos
  Experience with branching, pull requests, code reviews, repository management, and release workflows.
• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL
  Ability to troubleshoot connectivity, authentication, permissions, backup, recovery, and performance issues.
• Cloud: Microsoft Azure
  Practical knowledge of infrastructure, identity, networking, storage, monitoring, security, governance, and cost awareness.
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management: Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
  Experience managing repeatable infrastructure and configuration changes through code.
• Containers: Docker; Kubernetes knowledge is welcome but not required
  Understanding of images, registries, networking, storage, secrets, resource management, container orchestration, and troubleshooting.
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
  Experience with build, test, quality checks, security scanning, artifact management, deployments, approvals, and rollback workflows.
• Observability: Azure Monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana
  Experience with metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards, service health, and production troubleshooting.
• Security and reliability:
  Understanding of identity and access management, secrets and certificate management, vulnerability management, high availability, backup and recovery, and resilient system design.
• Code quality: SonarQube or similar tools
  Familiarity with automated quality and security controls integrated into delivery pipelines.

ALSO is one of the leading technology providers for the ICT industry currently active in 30 countries in Europe and in a total of 144 countries worldwide. In 2024, net sales of the Swiss‑based company, which employs about 4 200 people, amounted to 11 billion euros. The ALSO ecosystem offers around 135 000 resellers hardware, software and IT services from more than 800 vendors in over 1 570 product categories. In the spirit of the circular economy, the company provides all services from provision to refurbishment from a single source.

ALSO has three business models: The Supply division comprises the transactional range of hardware and software. The Solutions division supports customers in the development of customized IT solutions and ready‑to‑use IoT applications. Subscription‑based cloud offerings for soft‑and hardware as well as platforms for cybersecurity, IoT, virtualization and AI are the focus of the Service area.

It is one of our fundamental values to respect human rights and to ensure that they are respected. This includes, in particular, respecting the personal dignity and privacy of each individual. Ethical behaviour is also expected of all our employees in business dealings with our partners. We are committed to fair, unrestricted competition and do not allow our decisions to be influenced by gifts or invitations, let alone financial benefits. Improving the lives of all people through technology - that is ALSO's goal. This also includes protecting our environment and making careful use of the limited resources we have. For further reference, please refer to our Code of Conduct.