DevOps & Technology Controls Consultant

GFT TECHNOLOGIES SE; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 186,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (Kraków)

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

GFT Technologies SE is seeking an experienced DevOps/SRE professional in Kraków to maintain and improve a complex payments landscape. You will work across payment services, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native infrastructure, driving reliability, automation, and service health in a fast-paced international environment.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD, incident management, release coordination, monitoring, and governance, with a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of APIs and microservices architectures.
• Experience with incident and problem management and root cause analysis.
• Strong monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and security patching.
• Willing to work in hybrid setup from Kraków office (8 days/month).

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, stability, and continuous improvement of payment services and supporting platforms.
• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Support the delivery of new services, integrations, and platform enhancements.
• Manage incidents end-to-end, including impact assessment, stakeholder communication, service restoration, and root cause analysis.
• Coordinate change management, testing, and release activities.
• Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational documentation.
• Support vulnerability management and security patching activities.
• Provide technical guidance to support teams and service stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement operational best practices and service health controls.
• Participate in service management and operational governance activities.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Application Support

Platform Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & observability

Linux/Unix

Security patching

Job description

Location:

Kraków, PL, 30-302

Working place: Hybrid

Working Location:

Type of contract: B2B contract

Salary range: 135-170 PLN/H

What will you do?

Join a mission-critical payments environment responsible for maintaining the reliability, stability, and continuous improvement of a complex technology landscape. You will work across payment services, integration platforms, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native infrastructure, supporting both operational excellence and the delivery of new capabilities. This role combines DevOps engineering, service management, automation, incident resolution, and technology controls within a fast-paced international environment.

• Own the reliability, stability, and continuous improvement of payment services and supporting platforms
• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Support the delivery of new services, integrations, and platform enhancements
• Manage incidents end-to-end, including impact assessment, stakeholder communication, service restoration, and root cause analysis
• Coordinate change management, testing, and release activities
• Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational documentation
• Support vulnerability management and security patching activities
• Provide technical guidance to support teams and service stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement operational best practices, observability standards, and service health controls
• Participate in service management and operational governance activities

Requirements

• Experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Support, or Platform Engineering roles
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of APIs and microservices architectures
• Experience with incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability practices
• Experience with change and release management processes
• Knowledge of Linux or Unix-based environments
• Understanding of security patching and vulnerability management practices
• Strong troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to work independently in complex production environments
• Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 8 days a month

Nice to have

• Knowledge of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
• Experience with IBM MQ
• Knowledge of Oracle databases
• Experience with SEPA payments or payment processing platforms
• Experience with SFTP integrations
• Knowledge of Service Management frameworks such as ITIL
• Experience supporting financial services or banking environments
• Understanding of SLOs, health checks, metrics, and distributed tracing

We are GFT Poland. WE KNOW how to tackle complex issues with innovative approach to deliver the highest value. Our reputation has been built around one simple rule: we do not overpromise, WE DELIVER. We deliver to our employees, clients and partners. WE GROW as you grow, so investing in you is our business strategy. Caring for each other is our priority. WE CARE who you are, what you need, how you feel. WE CARE to smile, have fun and develop as human beings.

Why Choose GFT?

• A culture of top performance
• Deep tech IT engineering & consulting
• 1200 skilled & top-class experts
• 77% of the team are regular/senior
• Products that contribute to a sustainable world
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Ambitious projects, trainings and tools you need to flourish
• Google Cloud Partner of the Year - for going above and beyond for customers