Junior Software Engineer (DevOps)
Junior DevOps engineer on the Emergency Call Handling team in Kraków, building and operating a cloud-based mission-critical call handling platform with 99.999% availability. Day to day involves Linux, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation with Ansible, and CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) across Azure/AWS.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Kraków, Poland
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Junior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 1+ years of experience in a DevOps or related role
- Experience/understanding of Linux operating systems (RHEL preferred)
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies (e.g. OpenShift, Proxmox, VMware ESXi, KVM)
- Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby)
- Experience with automation of infrastructure and application deployments (e.g. Ansible)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Hands-on experience with the technologies mentioned in the posting
- Experience working with different time zones (fluent English)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality
- Open to learning new technologies and adapting to changing requirements
Nice to have
- Knowledge of database management systems (e.g. PostgreSQL, MS SQL)
- Familiarity with message queues (e.g. RabbitMQ)
- Understanding of networking concepts, principles and security best practices
- Knowledge of log management and analytics tools (e.g. Elastic Stack, Prometheus)
- Understanding of backup and disaster recovery strategies
- Familiarity with configuration management and version control systems
- Knowledge of at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Practical knowledge of Spring Boot and/or Angular (at least basic level)
- Understanding of Agile Scrum and working in a CI/CD environment
- Able to troubleshoot and debug basic networking issues; knowledge of Wireshark
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-available service environment
- Knowledge of application layer protocols (SIP, RTP, HTTP, SOAP/REST, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, TLS, WebRTC)
- Familiarity with tools for systems management, operational support, and performance monitoring
Full description
Job Description
Joining the Emergency Call Handling team in Krakow, you will contribute to extending capabilities of our mission critical platform and enhancing the existing technologies we use.
We’re looking for an Engineer with a strong DevOps background who is interested in building cloud-based solutions with a unique opportunity to build 99.999% available systems - yes, this is correct, what the team is building has a window of not being available for about 5 minutes a year. Watch to learn more aboutNGEN Call Handling!
**Tech stack:Kubernetes/Docker, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Quarkus, GitHub, Azure DevOps, ELK Stack + Prometheus/Grafana, Redis, Azure & AWS, SIP/RTP/WebRTC/MSRP , Gstreamer, RUST, Asterisk, Postgresql, NGINX, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, Selenium/Playwright, Ansible, Cloud formation, Github actions, Jenkins
Basic RequirementsMust have:**
- Experience understanding of Linux operating systems (RHEL preferred).
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies (e.g. Openshift, PROXMOX, VMware ESXi, KVM).
- Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g.Bash, Python, Ruby).
- Experience with automation of infrastructure and application deployments (e.g.Ansible).
- Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
Could have:
- Knowledge of database management systems (e.g. PostgreSQL, MS SQL).
- Familiarity with message queues (e.g.RabbitMQ).
- Understanding of networking concepts and principles and security best practices
- Knowledge of log management and analytics tools (e.g.Elastic Stack, Prometheus).
- Understanding of backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Familiarity with configuration management and version control systems.
- Knowledge of at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Practical knowledge of one or more of these technologies (at least on a basic level): Spring Boot, Angular
- Understanding of Linux operating systems (RHEL preferred)
- Understanding of Agile Scrum Experience and working in a CI/CD environment (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery)
- Able to troubleshoot and debug issues on basic networking, knowledge of Wireshark
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always up, always-available service environment.
- Knowledge of application layer protocols, including SIP, RTP, HTTP, SOAP/REST, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, TLS, WebRTC.
- Familiarity with tools for systems management, operational support, and performance monitoring.
Soft skills:
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.