Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Intellias; Poland; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellias is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join an delivery team on a large-scale enterprise data platform migration for a financial services client. You will own CI/CD, IaC and environment consistency across the Azure estate, and act as the primary counterpart to the client’s platform team.

You will design and operate CI/CD pipelines, manage Databricks workspaces, clusters and policies via Terraform, and ensure governance from dev to prod.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps or platform engineering, with recent hands-on Azure experience.
• Strong Terraform, Azure DevOps pipelines and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Experience running Databricks in production: workspaces, Unity Catalog metastore, cluster policies, jobs, SQL Warehouses.
• Comfort with Azure identity, networking, storage and security fundamentals.
• Track record of building CI/CD for data platforms, not just application deployment.
• Experience with observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, Azure Monitor or similar).
• Fluent working English.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for every domain team, using Databricks Asset Bundles as the deployment substrate.
• Manage Databricks workspaces, clusters, jobs and policies through infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Own environment promotion (dev / test / prod), release governance and rollback.
• Set up observability across pipelines and platform components: logs, metrics, alerting and operational dashboards.
• Implement FinOps guardrails: autoscaling, cold-tier storage, cost tagging per domain and weekly cost reviews.
• Manage secrets, service principals, network configuration and identity integration with Azure AD.
• Automate quality gates, security scans and standards checks in the CI pipeline so generated and hand-written code both go through the same checks.
• Enable the agentic tooling loop by exposing platform APIs to MCP servers where appropriate.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Databricks

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

English

Azure security

Networking

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Azure DevOps

Job description

We are hiring a DevOps Engineer to join an Intellias delivery team on a large-scale enterprise data platform migration programme for a financial services client. You will own CI/CD, infrastructure as code and environment consistency across the Azure estate, and you will be the primary counterpart to the client’s platform team.

What project we have for you

Our client is an independent, active global asset manager with over R3 trillion in assets under management. They are executing a firm-wide data strategy to govern, manage and engineer data as a product across more than 70 business-owned sub-domains.

As part of this, they are migrating to Databricks as the foundational layer of their Enterprise Data Platform, adopting a lakehouse architecture built on open formats, declarative pipelines and Unity Catalog.

What you will do

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for every domain team, using Databricks Asset Bundles as the deployment substrate.
• Manage Databricks workspaces, clusters, jobs and policies through infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Own environment promotion (dev / test / prod), release governance and rollback.
• Set up observability across pipelines and platform components: logs, metrics, alerting and operational dashboards.
• Implement FinOps guardrails: autoscaling, cold-tier storage, cost tagging per domain and weekly cost reviews.
• Manage secrets, service principals, network configuration and identity integration with Azure AD.
• Automate quality gates, security scans and standards checks in the CI pipeline so generated and hand-written code both go through the same checks.
• Enable the agentic tooling loop by exposing platform APIs to MCP servers where appropriate.

What you need for this

• 5+ years of DevOps or platform engineering, with recent hands-on Azure experience.
• Strong Terraform, Azure DevOps pipelines and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Experience running Databricks in production: workspaces, Unity Catalog metastore, cluster policies, jobs, SQL Warehouses.
• Comfort with Azure identity, networking, storage and security fundamentals.
• Track record of building CI/CD for data platforms, not just application deployment.
• Experience with observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, Azure Monitor or similar).
• Fluent working English.

Nice to have

• Active Databricks certifications
• FinOps Foundation certification or equivalent cost management experience.
• Experience integrating MCP servers or agentic tooling with cloud and Databricks APIs.

What it’s like to work at Intellias

At Intellias, where technology takes center stage, people always come before processes. By creating a comfortable atmosphere in our team, we empower individuals to unlock their true potential and achieve extraordinary results. That’s why we offer a range of benefits that support your well-being and charge your professional growth.

We are committed to fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We welcome and celebrate the uniqueness of every individual. Join Intellias for a career where your perspectives and contributions are vital to our shared success.