Principal DevOps Engineer (Poland, Remote)

Poland
August 13, 2026
Remote
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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

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