Job Description

A leading global education technology company is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership within its DevOps and platform engineering function. The role focuses on building reliable, scalable, secure, and developer-friendly infrastructure across AWS serverless and Kubernetes environments.

Location: Krakow, Katowice, Gdansk, Poznan, Poland
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: Remote

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and implementation of platform capabilities across AWS serverless workloads and Kubernetes/EKS environments.
• Partner with architects and senior technical leaders to translate platform strategy into practical, scalable solutions.
• Break down complex architectural initiatives into clear, executable milestones and delivery plans.
• Develop reusable infrastructure patterns, modules, and engineering standards.
• Drive improvements that reduce incident frequency, severity, and operational workload.
• Strengthen observability practices across logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and alerting.
• Improve CI/CD automation, deployment workflows, change management, and incident response practices.
• Contribute to Kubernetes cluster architecture, networking, security, and platform modernization.
• Improve cost visibility, resource tagging, logging pipelines, and infrastructure guardrails.
• Establish clear deployment and monitoring pathways that improve the developer experience.
• Support the adoption of DORA metrics and reliability-focused engineering practices.
• Mentor senior engineers, lead technical discussions and design reviews, and communicate technical risks and trade-offs clearly.
• Support the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools within engineering workflows.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Proven experience operating serverless and Kubernetes environments at scale.
• Strong AWS expertise, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and VPC.
• Strong Kubernetes/EKS experience, particularly in networking, observability, and production operations.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform.
• Strong experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and production infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to improve system reliability and reduce operational toil.
• Experience collaborating with multiple engineering teams and senior technical stakeholders.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing and using DORA metrics to improve engineering performance.
• Experience supporting SRE operating models and incident reduction initiatives.
• Experience improving developer onboarding and platform user experience.
• Experience developing engineering tools using Python, Node.js, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience evaluating and implementing AI-assisted development tools responsibly.

Key Competencies

• Resourcefulness
• Collaboration & Influencing
• Quality Focus