DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps – SRE

Location: Gdansk, Poland (Hybrid)

Duration: Long Term Project

Job description:

About Project:

Information about project

• The DAS (Digital Aviation Solutions) Digital Platform is a comprehensive suite of digital tools and services designed to enhance the efficiency, safety, and performance of aviation operations. Built by developers for developers, it employs modern software engineering best practices and technologies to streamline and fast-track the development of cloud-native applications. This platform supports both greenfield projects and the modernization of legacy applications while helping manage cloud costs.

• Information about product

The DAS (Digital Aviation Solutions) Digital Platform is a comprehensive suite of digital tools and services designed to enhance the efficiency, safety, and performance of aviation operations. Built by developers for developers, it employs modern software engineering best practices and technologies to streamline and fast-track the development of cloud-native applications. This platform supports both greenfield projects and the modernization of legacy applications while helping manage cloud costs.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement and manage observability solutions across cloud environments.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools such as Prometheus, LGTM Stack
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless integration of observability practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Automate the collection and visualization of metrics, logs, and traces to provide insights into application performance and system health.
• Work with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to provision and manage cloud resources with observability in mind.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement best practices for observability, including metrics collection and alerting thresholds.
• Maintain documentation related to observability practices, tools, and processes.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in observability and cloud technologies.
• Automate deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AzureDevOps.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with Open Telemetry, AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch, ADOT, Grafana
• 3-5 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or a related role, with a focus on Observability.
• Proficiency in AWS
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with CI/CD tools and practices and Platform Engineering principles.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices.
• Encourages collaborative learning and contributes to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Certifications (nice to have):

• Azure Administrator Associate
• Azure Solution Architect Expert
• Azure DevOps Expert
• AWS SysOps Administrator Associate
• AWS Solution Architect Associate / Professional
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• Kubernetes: CKA / CKAD / CKS

Technologies used (contained above in the role description and basic requirements section) and here is the whole list:

Azure:

• Azure Monitor Workspace
• Azure Grafana
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Prometheus
• Grafana Loki
• Grafana Tempo
• Azure RBAC
• Azure Virtual Networks
• Azure Application Gateway
• Open Telemetry
• Terraform
• Azure Storage

AWS:

• IAM
• Virtual Private Cloud
• Elastic Kubernetes Service
• VPC Lattice
• CloudWatch
• X-Ray
• ADOT (AWS Distro for Open Telemetry)
• S3

Grafana stack:

• Loki
• Tempo
• Prometheus
• Grafana UI

Scripting:

• Bash
• PowerShell
• Python
• Terraform
• Open Telemetry
• PagerDuty