Staff DevOps & Platform Engineer

About the project

For our client operating in the renewable energy industry, we are looking for a Sr DevOps & Platform Engineer to work on defining, architecting, and scaling an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), enterprise GitOps workflows, and autonomous self-healing infrastructure. In this role, you will act as a technical authority across the engineering organization, focusing on eliminating developer friction, enforcing automated zero-trust security guardrails, scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes systems, and building closed-loop AIOps pipelines.

Location

100% remote,

start in October/beginning of November

Your responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap for self-service platform engineering, zero-trust cloud security, and distributed observability across multi-cloud environments.
• Measure and optimize internal developer velocity, reducing onboarding time, build bottlenecks, and time-to-first-commit across all product squads.
• Establish engineering standards for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and telemetry; mentor senior and mid-level engineers through architecture reviews and RFCs.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to establish strict SLO/SLI governance, error budget policies, and automated chaos testing across distributed services.
• Design and standardize self-service developer portals and golden deployment paths, enabling product teams to provision secure, ephemeral environments independently.
• Architect multi-cluster, multi-region declarative delivery models using ArgoCD or Flux CD.
• Build closed-loop self-healing systems combining OpenTelemetry, topological anomaly correlation, and stateful orchestration engines.
• Implement zero-trust security guardrails across the delivery lifecycle using Kyverno or Open Policy Agent (OPA).
• Lead the design and scaling of inference and training infrastructure, including GPU cluster autoscaling and vector database hosting.
• Architect fault-tolerant failovers, active-active multi-region traffic routing, and automated chaos engineering experiments.

Our requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform and DevOps engineering.
• 6+ years of enterprise-scale Kubernetes administration.
• Strong programming proficiency in Go and Python.
• Mastery of modular Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi.
• Production experience designing OpenTelemetry collector topologies.
• Proven track record building deterministic, idempotent workflows with state-machine frameworks.
• Demonstrated track record of authoring cross-team RFCs and establishing operational SLOs/SLIs.
• Direct experience integrating LLM tool-calling, agentic triage workflows, or RAG-based runbook retrieval into incident response loops.

What we offer

• Ongoing support from a dedicated agent, taking care of your project continuity, client contact, necessary formalities, work comfort and development,
• Consultant Development Program – advice on growth planning based on the latest trends and market needs in IT, including consultations with agents and growth mentors,
• Access to Darize Learning & Development – a development and educational platform with webinars, a library of articles and industry reports, and regular invitations to one-time and recurring development events – technical, business, and lifestyle,
• Spectacular integration events, both for you (e.g., annual Kick-Off trip, Christmas parties, or Summer Olympics sports events) and for your loved ones (e.g., family picnics, movie premieres),
• Professional development not only during the project – you can get involved in knowledge transfer to others within the Darize Services offering directed at Darize clients,
• Relationships and access to the knowledge of the most experienced IT experts in the market – the average professional tenure of our consultants in Poland is over 10 years,
• A complete benefits package, including funding for medical care, life insurance, sports cards for you and your loved ones, as well as discounts in stores in Poland and abroad.

Development opportunities we offer

• development budget
• external training
• industry-specific e-learning platforms
• intracompany training
• mentoring
• technical knowledge exchange within the company

Benefits

• Career Advisors Program
• Group Insurance
• Cafeteria Programs
• Awards for engagement
• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• integration events
• baby layette
• christmas gifts
• employee referral program

Recruitment stages

• Phone screening interview (up to 15 minutes)
• Online recruitment interview
• Project onboarding preparation

Darize

Some projects keep businesses running. Others help them evolve and grow. If you're more drawn to the latter, chances are we have a lot in common. At Darize, we work with organizations tackling complex technology challenges.

In IT, one challenge is always around the corner: before one project ends, it’s already time to think about the next. Add uncertainty, rate negotiations, and administrative tasks, and it’s easy to lose focus on what matters most. That’s why we do more than connect experts with projects. We provide stability, access to ambitious technology initiatives, and a community of experienced professionals, so you can focus on what you do best.

Darize brings together more than 2,500 consultants across 24 countries. In Poland, you may know us as 7N, the brand we built for over 20 years. We value expertise, long-term relationships, and a culture rooted in trust, quality, and Nordic values. We challenge the status quo and create an environment where people matter more than processes.