DevOps Tech Lead

N-iX; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

N-iX in Kraków, Poland, is seeking a senior platform/DevOps leader to design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure for development teams. You will drive Kubernetes-based workloads on GKE, manage security-friendly cloud architectures, and mentor engineers across the organization.

You will partner with engineering managers to scope platform work, set high standards for reliability, and foster a culture of IaC and automation. Flexible formats are available, including remote and hybrid options.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years mentoring/leadership, including 1+ years leading a team.
• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Infra, with 3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE preferred).
• 3+ years with a major cloud provider and IaC; senior-level knowledge of GCP, IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL and Secret Manager.
• 3+ years operating at Senior/Staff/Principal level.
• Experience with CI/CD design and operations.
• Experience with GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD).
• Experience collaborating with engineering managers and product leadership on scoping/prioritization.
• Experience leading incident response and postmortems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on: clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability.
• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers and product leadership to scope and prioritize platform work.
• Set the quality bar for the team and lead by example.
• Mentor and manage the team, focusing on code quality, clean IaC, and best practices.
• Lead trainings, set SMART goals, conduct performance reviews, and provide feedback to each dev.

Skills

DevOps / SRE / Infra

Kubernetes (GKE)

Google Cloud Platform

Infrastructure as Code

IAM

Networking

KMS

Secret Manager

Senior / Staff / Principal level

CI/CD

GitOps (FluxCD / ArgoCD)

Stakeholder management

Incident response

Mentor/Leadership

Team leadership

Prometheus

Thanos

Loki

Grafana

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Istio

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Prometheus

Job description

The project is moving everything towards GCP and Kubernetes. We’re growing towards a scale that no longer matches our legacy architecture and actively investing in modernization. We’re migrating on-premise workloads to GKE, strengthening security and business continuity best practices, and moving toward platform self-service for our development teams. A core goal is to consolidate and shrink the stack and every migration decision is measured against whether it lowers the daily burden on the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience being a mentor/leader, of which:
  • 1+ years leading a team, formally or as a tech lead
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, of which:
  • 3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE preferred)
  • 3+ years of experience with a major cloud provider and Infrastructure as Code. GCP is our primary cloud and we expect senior-level knowledge of IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL and Secret Manager
  • 3+ years of experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer level.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operations
• Experience with GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD)
• Experience working directly with engineering teams and other managers as your customers on scoping and prioritization
• Experience leading incident response, including running postmortems

Responsibilities

• Work with your team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on: clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability
• Your customers are the other engineering teams. Work with the other Engineering Managers and product development leadership to scope and prioritize platform work
• Set the quality bar for your team. Lead by example.
• Manage, lead, and mentor your team while working side by side with them in code quality, clean infrastructure-as-code, soft skills, best practices, etc
• Lead team trainings, set SMART goals, hold performance reviews, and provide individual feedback recurrently to each of your devs

Nice to have

• Experience leading a team through a significant architectural migration
• Experience with consumer platforms at scale
• Experience building in regulated environments
• Experience operating self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
• Experience supporting .NET/C# application deployments
• Experience with database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with Istio or other service meshes

We offer

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits
• not applicable for freelancers