Senior DevOps Engineer

The HEINEKEN Company; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

HEINEKEN Kraków is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Commerce DevOps Hub. You will deliver, manage, and maintain a Azure environment including CI/CD, configuration management and release automation for in-house ecommerce products.

You will collaborate with Product Owners and Architects to alignDevOps with engineering roadmaps and ensure high-quality deliverables. The role reports to the Engineering Manager, requires at least 5 years of DevOps experience and 8+ years in IT, with

Qualifications

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep
• Scripting: Bash or Python
• YAML pipelines, branching, PR policies
• Docker and CI/CD tooling
• Azure DevOps experience and cloud design

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce standards for configuration and CI/CD processes
• Enhance build and release pipelines with automation and monitoring
• Develop automated pipelines for building, testing and deploying software
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and sysadmins to improve delivery
• Lead multi-team efforts to maintain configuration and release automation
• Implement system enhancements for performance, security and reliability
• Contribute to fault-tolerant architectures and rapid recovery strategies
• Evaluate trade-offs on performance, cost, and time-to-market
• Participate in scaling and sustaining the delivery platform infrastructure
• Ensure automated provisioning and monitoring across environments

Skills

DevOps experience

IT experience

Communication

Team player

Education

Microsoft Azure certifications

Tools

Azure DevOps

Azure Repos

Azure Pipelines

Terraform

Bicep

Docker

Git

Job description

Our dream at HEINEKEN is to help our customers grow their businesses by serving them better, faster, and smarter with digital solutions. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the importance of digital in the Commerce space at Heineken. HEINEKEN’s digital solutions are a vital component in protecting and growing the company's revenue. To ensure that this trend is supported the Commerce DevOps Hub has been established. This newly created organization, being an integral part of the Global Digital & Technology Function, is tasked with engineering the software which powers e-Commerce. The Commerce DevOps Hub location is in Kraków, Poland.

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 Azure environment, including CI/CD, configuration management and release automation for in-house products in eazle (our e-Commerce platform). 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:

• establishing standards/guidelines for how software and infrastructure should be configured, to allow teams for effective work and smooth CI/CD processes
• supporting and enhance build and release processes through automation, monitoring, and performance optimization strategies with a combination of processes and tools
• 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
• 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 an important contributor to a multi-team effort to deliver, manage and maintain configuration and release automation to meet business needs
• recommending, developing, and implementing 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
• presence in the office a minimum of 5 days per month - only for CoE

Mandatory to know:

• Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform, Bicep is a plus)
• Scripting - Bash or Python
• Knowledge of how to build YAML pipelines, manage branching, implement PR policies
• Docker

Good to know:

• DevSecOps toolset
• Other programming language (Node, Go, Rust etc.)

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, with a proven track record in a senior capacity
• 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
• 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
• 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

At HEINEKEN Kraków, we take integrity and ethical conduct seriously. If someone has concerns about a possible violation of legal regulations indicated in Polish Whistleblowing Act or our Code of Business Conduct, we encourage them to speak up. Cases can be reported to global team or locally (in line with the local HGSS Whistleblowing procedure) by selecting proper option in this tool or by communicating it on hotline.