DevOps & Technology Controls Consultant (Kraków, PL, 30-302)

GFT Technologies SE; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 186,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

GFT Technologies SE in Poland is seeking a DevOps/SRE professional to maintain reliability across payment services and supporting platforms. You will build and improve CI/CD pipelines, support new services, manage incidents end-to-end, and coordinate releases.

The role demands strong monitoring, security patching, and collaboration with engineering teams. The position offers hybrid work with eight days per month at the client's Kraków office, in a fast-paced international environment with a

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps, SRE, 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.

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, observability standards, and service health controls
• Participate in service management and operational governance activities

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

CI/CD

APIs

Microservices

Linux/Unix

Security patching

Incident management

Stakeholder comms

Tools

IBM WebSphere

IBM MQ

Oracle

SFTP integration

ITIL

Job description

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.

Your tasks

• 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