DevOps Engineer

U.S. Bank; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank in Warsaw is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join a greenfield transformation, building a cloud-native core banking platform powered by Thought Machine Vault in a highly regulated financial services environment.

The role requires hands-on AWS cloud engineering, IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Kafka expertise, with strong automation and security focus. Role is hybrid with three days in the Warsaw office.

Qualifications

• Extensive DevOps engineering experience within banking or regulated environments.
• Strong AWS cloud engineering experience.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible.
• Experience building and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools.
• Kubernetes & Docker expertise.
• Production Kafka administration & event-driven architectures.
• Experience in Agile delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and support cloud infrastructure underpinning the core banking platform.
• Develop and maintain IaC solutions for resilient environments.
• Ensure platform availability, reliability, scalability and security across environments.
• Monitor services and identify issues before customer impact.
• Automate remediation and operational tooling to reduce manual work.
• Participate in incident management and RCAs.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure delivery.
• Drive automation across provisioning, configuration, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve developer experience while upholding regulatory controls.
• Promote DevSecOps practices across the lifecycle.
• Support deployment and operation of Vault products and banking services.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS Cloud

IaC tools

CI/CD

Scripting

Observability

Kubernetes

Kafka

Distributed systems

Incident management

Agile

Tools

AWS IAM and EKS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Datadog

Grafana

New Relic

Sumo Logic

Kubernetes (K8s)

Docker

Apache Kafka

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation. We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.

Job Description DevOps Engineer

We are hiring a team of 4 DevOps Engineers in our Warsaw office. These roles are permanent roles (salary based - not B2B) and the expectation is to be in our Warsaw office 3 days per week

Overview

U.S. Bank is building a next-generation Core Banking platform powered by Thought Machine Vault, a modern cloud-native banking platform that will support the future of our deposit, lending, and banking services. We are seeking experienced DevOps Engineers who have operated within highly regulated financial services environments and can help design, build, automate, and operate critical banking infrastructure at scale. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a greenfield transformation programme, helping establish the DevOps foundations, automation frameworks, observability standards, and operational excellence required for a modern cloud-native core banking ecosystem. The ideal candidate will bring strong DevOps engineering expertise combined with experience supporting mission-critical banking, financial services, fintech, payments, or other highly regulated platforms where resilience, security, auditability, and customer availability are paramount.

Key Accountabilities

• Platform Engineering & Operations Build, maintain and support the cloud infrastructure underpinning the Thought Machine core banking platform.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to provision and manage highly resilient banking environments.
• Ensure platform availability, reliability, scalability and security across development, test, staging and production environments.
• Monitor critical banking services and proactively identify production issues before customer impact occurs.
• Implement automated remediation, self-healing and operational tooling to reduce manual intervention.
• Participate in major incident management and root cause analysis activities.
• DevOps & Automation Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support secure, repeatable and compliant software delivery.
• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, testing and deployment processes.
• Partner closely with Engineering teams to improve developer experience and accelerate delivery while maintaining regulatory controls.
• Promote DevSecOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Core Banking Transformation Collaborate with Thought Machine architects, platform engineers, software engineers and business stakeholders to deliver the strategic core banking roadmap.
• Support the deployment and ongoing operation of Vault products, APIs and banking services.
• Contribute to environment design, release management, resilience testing and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Help establish operational standards, observability frameworks and platform governance models for the new banking ecosystem.
• Compliance, Security & Risk Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes meet banking regulatory requirements and internal risk controls.
• Support audit activities and maintain appropriate operational documentation.
• Work closely with Security, Risk and Compliance teams to implement controls around access management, logging, monitoring and change governance.
• Ensure all operational activities align with security, resilience and regulatory standards expected within financial services.

Required Skills & Experience

Must Have

• Extensive DevOps engineering experience within banking, financial services, fintech, payments, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong AWS cloud engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar.
• Experience building, maintaining, and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments with stringent uptime and resilience requirements.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Sumo Logic.
• Strong experience with containerised platforms including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience supporting and administering Apache Kafka platforms in production environments.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and messaging patterns using Kafka for real-time transaction processing and system integration.
• Experience managing Kafka topics, partitions, replication, brokers, schema management, monitoring, performance tuning, and operational support.
• Experience working with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of production support, incident management, change management, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.

Skills Summary

• AWS – IAM, EKS, ECR, VPC, Security Groups, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, Secrets Manager, PrivateLink
• Containers & Kubernetes – Kubernetes administration, EKS, Helm, ingress controllers, autoscaling, RBAC, namespaces, networking
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, environment provisioning, state management
• CI/CD – GitOps, deployment pipelines, release automation, branching/versioning strategies
• Observability – Datadog, OpenTelemetry, logging, metrics, tracing, dashboard creation, alerting
• Secrets Management – AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault integration
• Scripting – troubleshooting containerized workloads
• DevSecOps – Security scanning, policy-as-code, compliance controls embedded within pipelines

Preferred Skills (Bonus)

• Experience with Thought Machine Vault or other modern Core Banking platforms.
• Experience supporting banking products including deposits, lending, cards, payments or customer account systems.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps capabilities and security automation.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and API-driven platforms.

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

Visa Sponsorship

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Accessibility

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.

Total Rewards

U.S. Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value. We offer a market-competitive compensation package that includes: Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards. Performance-based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize individual and company performance. Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our 3 main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness). Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria. Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all. We regularly review our compensation and benefits to ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and responsive to employee needs and market trends. Further details of the compensation package will be provided upon application. We encourage candidates to explore the full value of our offer, including monetary and non-monetary benefits, at Employee benefits and development | U.S. Bank | Elavon.

Closing Date

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants. We aim to provide timely updates throughout the process and encourage early applications to ensure consideration.

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.