Senior DevOps Engineer
Duco
About the role
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the evolution of our software delivery and observability capabilities. In this role, you’ll focus on designing and driving our CI/CD strategy, shaping build and release workflows, and developing tooling that accelerates developer productivity. You will be a key contributor to standardising delivery practices, improving automation across the SDLC, and ensuring our systems are monitored, observable, and resilient.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams, guide best practices, and take ownership of mission-critical delivery and observability systems that support our growing customer base.
What you will be working on:
- Lead CI/CD strategy & execution: Drive fast, reliable, and secure delivery pipelines.
- Architect delivery systems: Evolve build systems, release workflows, and automation frameworks for scalable software delivery.
- Own Observability: Define and implement unified logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and SLO-based operations.
- Develop internal tooling: Build tools to boost developer productivity and efficiency.
- Partner on optimisation: Collaborate with development teams to optimise builds, standardise environments, and improve SDLC automation.
- Standardise CI/CD: Create and maintain reusable templates, libraries, and best practices using tools like GitLab CI, Flux, and Helm.
- Provide incident leadership: Offer senior, hands-on troubleshooting and long-term remediation for major delivery or observability incidents.
- Integrate platform systems: Ensure delivery systems integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and cloud services.
- Mentor & coach: Elevate team standards and enable self-service capabilities in CI/CD and Observability domains.
- Drive innovation: Evaluate, recommend, and implement new technologies to improve company-wide build performance, observability, and delivery reliability.\
Ideally, you will have
- 7+ years in DevOps/Platform/Build Engineering, specialising in large-scale CI/CD and developer workflow optimization.
- Expert in designing and operating production CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
- Proven observability leadership (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger/Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb).
- Strong scripting (e.g. Bash, Python, Golang) for automation and internal tools.
- Deep knowledge of modern build/packaging (e.g. Docker, container optimisation, caching, artifact management).
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, establishing CI/CD governance, quality gates, and compliance at scale.
- Hands-on architect, capable of guidance and hands-on implementation.
- Relevant certifications (e.g. DevOps, Kubernetes, AWS) a plus.
Your benefits
- Competitive salary package aligned with your skills and experience. Reviewed annually.
- Performance-based bonus
- Private Medical Insurance - Inter Polska
- Life Insurance
- Multisport Program
- Unlimited annual holiday, because we trust our people to manage their own time off
- Enhanced family leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 4 Volunteering days off
- Flexible working policy
- Home working allowance
- Personal learning and development opportunities (annual dedicated budget)
- Referral bonus if we hire someone great who you’ve recommended to us
- Spot Rewards
- Employee of the Month and Employee of the Year awards
- Wellbee