Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join First Connect as a Senior DevOps Engineer and play a key role in managing and expanding the company's Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Collaborate with various stakeholders, including Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and developers. Strengthen and expand the scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure. Help make developers more productive by providing tools, metrics, CI/CD processes, and other self-service tools. Define and improve the DevOps culture, guiding and mentoring teammates. Work with various cloud providers, databases, and open-source tools. Take ownership and responsibility for shaping how things are done. Share on-call rotations with another senior engineer to maintain platform health. Develop skills and learn about the US tech business.

Requirements

• Have 6+ years of hands-on DevOps experience and feel at home with build/release automation
• Have hands-on experience with tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, and modern CI/CD systems
• Know AWS well and have solid, practical experience running production workloads on it
• Feel comfortable as a generalist — you’re not just about pipelines and infrastructure, but also open to diving into networking, security, and broader systems topics
• Are skilled in Golang or Python
• Enjoy working in a small, focused, and highly efficient team, in a startup environment
• Are comfortable working with logging and metrics systems to keep things running smoothly
• Have a great command of English and Polish (written & spoken)
• Are available in the afternoons - due to collaboration with the United States, occasional evening meetings may occur. Rest assured, we prioritize work-life fit, respect everyone's private lives, but we still must ensure that communication between the time zones is effective

Responsibilities

• You'll focus on strengthening and expanding our scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure as the First Connect platform grows
• You'll help make developers more productive by providing tools, metrics, CI/CD processes, and other self-service tools
• You'll play a key role in defining and improving our DevOps culture, guiding and mentoring teammates around best practices in reliability, automation, and infrastructure-as-code
• You'll have the chance to work with various cloud providers, databases, and open-source tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker
• You'll have huge creative freedom and the ability to put your mark on the project, and you will take ownership and responsibility for what you do. This isn’t a “just keep the lights on” role — you’ll shape how things are done from the ground up
• You’ll work closely with the other senior DevOps engineer, sharing responsibility for on-call rotations and keeping the platform healthy
• You’ll have a lot of chances to develop your skills as well as learn a lot about how tech business is done in the US (if you want to)

Preferred Qualifications

• A foundation in system administration, networking, or security — we value broad technical awareness
• Prior startup experience (1–2 years or more)
• Familiarity with GCP
• Experience working in small DevOps teams

Benefits

• Salary 26 000 – 32 000 PLN + VAT on B2B or equivalent on the contract of employment
• ���� Form of employment of your choosing
• ���� Remote work & flexible working hours
• ���� Paid sick leave
• ����️ Paid holidays
• ���� Private medical care with dentists & orthodontists package for you and your family
• ���️ Group life insurance
• ���� Psychotherapists support — free online sessions with psychologists and psychotherapists
• ���� Home physiotherapy
• ���� Multisport card & meditation apps reimbursed 50%
• ���� Gear with Apple Logo and monitor
• ���� 50% reimbursement for courses, conferences, books & certificates
• ����🇸 Free access to private language lessons
• ���� 6 Personal Development Days & 4 Voluntary Days Off
• ���� Cafeteria platform — extra “stówka”every month to spend on whatever you want to
• ���� Nanny services for parents
• ���� Concierge services – a personal assistant to help you to deal with your everyday matters
• ���� Chill room with table football & PlayStation 5
• ���� Free snacks, and ice cream in the office (every day, all year round!)
• ���� Free Friday Lunch in the office
• ���� Team building events — we party together several times a year during the annual Offsite & Christmas Parties, beer after work, or our #WinterEscapeMonth workation in Cyprus