Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Wroclaw

Contract Type: 6-month contract

• Work on cloud-native platforms serving wealth management advisors and clients across the Americas
• Lead infrastructure automation and modernisation using Terraform, Azure, and Kubernetes
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence across client-facing applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish DevOps best practices
• 8-10 years of experience required in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering

Company Overview

Our client is a global financial services organisation operating within their wealth management technology division. They build and run platforms that serve financial advisors and their clients, focusing on investment, advisory, and trading capabilities across multiple asset classes. The technology team supports critical wealth management journeys, helping clients understand their wealth and take action on financial opportunities. They are committed to delivering secure, scalable, and resilient platforms through modern engineering practices and cloud adoption.

They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their Investment, Advisory & Trading Platforms team in Warsaw. This is an opportunity to modernise cloud infrastructure, automate deployment processes, and improve platform reliability for applications that directly impact financial advisors and their clients.

Position Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a central role in operating and modernising platforms that support wealth management services. You will focus on cloud adoption, infrastructure automation, and platform reliability while enabling development teams to deliver software efficiently. Your work will directly contribute to the stability and scalability of client-facing applications, ensuring secure and repeatable deployment processes across hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform across cloud and hybrid environments
• Manage cloud-native platforms leveraging Microsoft Azure services and Azure Kubernetes Service
• Deploy and support containerised workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Create and maintain highly automated CI/CD pipelines for secure application delivery
• Reduce manual operational processes through deployment automation initiatives
• Support hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments
• Architect platform observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards
• Improve production stability through proactive monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis
• Maintain secrets management, certificate management, and secure engineering controls
• Establish platform engineering best practices with development, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams
• Troubleshoot networking, connectivity, and infrastructure performance across distributed environments
• Coordinate complex releases involving multiple applications, teams, and dependencies
• Develop operational runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and platform documentation
• Contribute to cloud modernisation, automation, and platform standardisation initiatives
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and delivery velocity through automation

Requirements

• 8-10 years of experience in DevOps engineering and cloud infrastructure
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure services and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Strong proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code implementation
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm for container orchestration
• Proven track record designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with platform observability, monitoring, and alerting solutions
• Strong understanding of secrets management and certificate management practices
• Knowledge of networking design, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation
• Experience managing hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Ability to coordinate complex releases across multiple teams and environments
• Strong collaboration skills working with cross-functional teams
• Experience developing operational documentation and disaster recovery procedures
• Commitment to automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement

Benefits

While specific benefits have not been provided, you'll join a global financial services organisation working on platforms that serve wealth management professionals and their clients. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers across development, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams, contributing to cloud modernisation initiatives and platform engineering best practices. This role offers the opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies and drive meaningful improvements in platform reliability and engineering productivity.