Senior DevOps Engineer

HEINEKEN Global Shared Services; Kraków; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

HEINEKEN Global Shared Services is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Kraków to deliver and maintain a robust DevOps environment. You will design and operate CI/CD pipelines, automate releases, and enforce standards across software and infrastructure.

Collaboration with Product Owners, Architects and multiple teams is essential to ensure scalable, reliable delivery. You will work with Azure, AKS, Terraform, ArgoCD and related tools, driving operational excellence and continuous improvement in

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years as a DevOps Engineer and 8+ years in IT.
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• Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines.
• Hands-on with Azure DevOps configuration/maintenance.
• Cloud security best practices.
• Strong communication with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver, manage and maintain a DevOps environment with CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Architects.
• Develop automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying software.
• Automate build, release processes and performance optimization.
• Establish standards for configuration of software and infrastructure.
• Drive operational excellence with automation and monitoring.
• Implement system enhancements for reliability and performance.
• Contribute to architectures enabling fault tolerance and rapid recovery.
• Discuss trade-offs between performance, scalability, cost, and time-to-market.
• Participate in ongoing systems development to scale delivery platform.

Skills

5+ years DevOps experience

8+ years IT experience

CI/CD problem solving

Strong communication skills

Willingness to learn

Pragmatic team player

Tools

Azure

Azure DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines

Docker / Podman

Terraform

Kubernetes (AKS)

ArgoCD

Crossplane

Traefik

Azure Front Door

WAF

ACME certificates

AKS cost optimization

Job description

At HEINEKEN, we are on a journey to become the best-connected brewer in the world, with Digital Commerce playing a central role in this ambition. Digital Commerce is responsible for designing, developing and scaling the IT solutions that serve our customers better, faster and smarter across the entire Route-to-Consumer ecosystem. After successfully building our software engineering organization, we are now entering the next stage of our evolution by accelerating the growth of Digital Commerce. We deliver digital products that directly support company revenue while elevating customer experience. Join us in shaping the technological capabilities that power HEINEKEN’s global Commerce strategy.

As the Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be part of the software development team and you will be responsible for delivering, managing and maintaining a DevOps environment, including CI/CD, configuration management and release automation for in-house products. Collaborating closely with Product Owner(s), Product Architect(s) and other software engineering teams you will need to understand the technical and business needs, helping to convert those needs into further development of the DevOps landscape and services in line with overall engineering standards and roadmaps. You will also drive excellence in engineering practices to deliver high-quality solutions throughout the software development lifecycle in our Commerce IT landscape.

The role reports directly to the Engineering Manager.

Your Responsibilities Would Include

• working with software developers, QAs, and other staff (e.g. system administrators, network engineers, etc.) to improve delivery process and oversee code releases and deployments
• being important contributor of a multi-team effort to deliver, manage and maintain configuration and release automation to meet business needs
• contributing to enhancing of the end-to-end development process and ensure ongoing platform reliability and availability
• developing automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying software applications, by creating, maintaining and documenting continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) environments to facilitate a development process
• supporting and enhance build and release processes through automation, monitoring, and performance optimization strategies with a combination of processes and tools
• establishing standards/guidelines for how software and infrastructure should be configured, to allow teams for effective work and smooth CI/CD processes
• driving operational excellence implementing automation, monitoring, and performance optimization strategies
• recommending, develop and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, configuration management and security
• contributing to mechanisms/architectures that enable fault tolerance and rapid recovery from failure
• being involved in discussions on the trade‑offs between performance, scalability, cost, and time‑to‑market
• participating in ongoing systems development efforts to build and scale the infrastructure of our delivery platform
• ensuring that the underlying infrastructure that supports software development, testing, and production is properly automated; contribute to improvements of infrastructure, architecture, and monitoring.

Technology Stack

Mandatory to know

• Azure
• Azure DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines
• Docker / Podman
• Terraform
• Kubernetes (AKS)
• ArgoCD
• Crossplane

Optional, But Will Be Strong Advantage

• Traefic
• Azure Front Door, WAF
• ACME certificates
• Experience with AKS cost optimization

You Are a Good Candidate If You Have

• at least 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer and 8+ years of overall experience in IT
• experience in designing, building, integrating and managing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools: Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines
• hands on experience in management, configuration and maintenance of Azure DevOps
• Microsoft certifications (AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator & AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions) - nice to have
• hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• proficiency in Version Control Systems (VCS), including branching, merging, pull requests, conflict resolution and workflows, using Azure Repos and knowledge of Git
• working experience in release management
• experience in integration of various services into the pipelines, e.g. monitoring and communication tools
• knowledge of security best practices for cloud‑based environments
• strong organization and verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical information clearly and effectively to non‑technical stakeholders
• problem‑solving skills with ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application, and automation issues
• willingness to learn and adapt to new tools, technologies, and processes as DevOps evolves
• pragmatic, and collaborative team player.

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