Senior Platform DevOps Engineer – Observability & Platform Integration

Your job in brief:

• You are enthusiastic about cloud-native platforms, observability and DevOps engineering.

• As a Platform DevOps Engineer, you are responsible for further design, implementation, evolution and support of platform services with a strong focus on observability, automation and Kubernetes platform integrations.

• You consult engineering teams and enable them to use platform capabilities effectively, reliably and securely. 

What awaits you: 

• Further development and operation of the enterprise observability platform including Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Thanos and related integrations.

• Ownership of critical monitoring and telemetry capabilities including migration concepts, telemetry onboarding, troubleshooting and enterprise monitoring standards.

• Implementation and support of platform integrations for Kubernetes, virtual machines, automation workflows and cloud environments.

• Development and operation of DevOps platform services such as CI/CD tooling, secrets management, artifact repositories and deployment automation.

• Contribution to AWS- and Azure-based platform services, GitOps practices and multi-cluster OpenShift environments.

• Support for platform engineering knowledge sharing, technical onboarding. 

Your ideal background and skillset:

You bring strong platform engineering and DevOps expertise. Experience in several of the following areas is highly valuable: 

• Observability platforms: Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Tempo, OTLP/OpenTelemetry, telemetry architecture and monitoring concepts

• Container platforms: OpenShift, Azure DevOps and Azure platform integrations

• Cloud and automation: AWS, Azure, Terraform, authentication, mTLS and platform service integrations

• Software Engineering: Basic to intermediate knowledge in Python, Golang and the Operator Framework

• Experience and strong preference for GitOps operating practices 

• Solid understanding and experience with certificate use cases and management of them (incl. mTLS, cert monitoring, oauth re-encrypt)   

• Nice to have: Experience in administrating and troubleshooting a Git Platform (GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab)

• Nice to have: Hashicorp Vault, External Secrets, JFrog, Nexus, Jenkins, SonarQube and related DevOps services 

• Nice to have: KEDA, Argo CD, Sealed Secrets, ingress 

• Nice to have: Experience building cost transparency and monitoring dashboard solutions 

• Nice to have: Knowledge transfer, coaching and apprenticeship support 

Additional qualifications:

• B. Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

• Several years of experience in platform engineering, system engineering or DevOps within agile environments

• Interest in software and platform architecture

• Fluent English; German is advantageous 

Your Team:

We are an infrastructure platform engineering team providing core services that enable DevOps practices across the organization. We value ownership, collaboration, transparent communication, and continuous improvement. We work as an agile team of around 8 team members from various countries. 

What you can expect from us:

We want to provide you with everything you need to succeed. To do that, we offer a bunch of benefits (depending on the type of contract chosen).

• Paid time off: Enjoy 30 paid days off per year.

• Flexible benefits budget: Additional budget that can be used for both personal or professional development.

• Comprehensive medical coverage: Full private healthcare for you and your family, including rehabilitation, psychotherapy, and dental services.

• Home office allowance: Support for a comfortable and productive remote work setup.

• Work from anywhere in Poland: Freedom to work remotely with the option to access our modern office in central Warsaw. You could expect occasional travels to Switzerland.

Recruitment Process Overview:

1. 45min video call with our recruiter.

2. 1h Technical Video Call.

3. 1h video call with Project Lead.

Join us in shaping the future of insurance at Helvetia Baloise Group where in a dynamic, global team setting, you’ll have the freedom to bring your ideas to life and work alongside experts to solve demanding technical challenges.