DevOps Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time – Remote (Poland)

Responsibilities:

Collaborate closely with architects, developers, QA, and security teams to ensure smooth and reliable environment operations.

Work in close partnership with the platform team, based on shared ownership, knowledge exchange, and mutual support.

Own and operate containerized application platforms based on Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Design and deliver dynamic test environments at scale, including multiple parallel, per–merge request (branch-based) deployments.

Build, maintain, and standardize CI/CD pipelines by creating reusable templates and components in Git Lab CI.

Drive deployment automation and Git Ops practices

Identify operational bottlenecks and implement automation to reduce manual effort and improve delivery speed.

Embed security‑by‑design across the SDLC, including pipeline hardening and automated security checks.

Build and operate observability platforms: monitoring, logging, and diagnostics (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK/Loki, etc.).

Participate in on‑call and incident response, including troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and post‑mortems.

Take end‑to‑end ownership of the solutions you build (“you build it, you run it”).

Requirements (Must‑have)

5+ years of experience as a Dev Ops Engineer or SRE in web‑based systems.

Strong expertise in Docker: image building, maintenance, registries, Docker Compose.

Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes: deployments, networking, ingress, secrets/configs, troubleshooting.

CI/CD expertise with Git Lab CI, including deployment automation (Helm or Kustomize).

Experience with branch‑based / ephemerial environments, or the ability to design and deliver such a solution in practice.

Observability know‑how: metrics, logs, and tracing with Grafana and related tooling.

Ingress / reverse proxy experience (e.g. Traefik or similar): TLS, Let’s Encrypt, routing, mTLS.

Security and IAM knowledge: OAuth2 / OIDC, SSO, token and permission management.

Excellent communication skills, strong collaboration mindset, and willingness to help others.

Nice‑to‑have:

Production experience with ArgoCD / Git Ops.

Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible (or equivalents).

Backend stack exposure: primarily PHP, Go.

Data stores and messaging:
Maria

DB (backup/restore, basic HA), Rabbit

MQ (monitoring, tuning).

Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Mobile CI/CD experience (bonus only):
Fastlane, Code Magic, Firebase App Distribution.

CI/CD & Delivery:
Git Lab CI, ArgoCD, Code Magic, Fastlane

Testing & QA:
Playwright, Python, Dart, Postman

Observability & Reliability:
Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry

Security & IAM: OAuth2 / OIDC, SSO, Secrets & Access Management, TLS / Let’s Encrypt

Collaboration & Productivity:
Jira, Requirements & Test Management for Jira, Confluence, Slack, IDE (freedom of choice), Google Workspace (G Suite)

OOP, TDD, DDD, SOLID, Clean Code

Code reviews, pull requests, automation mindset

QA as part of cross‑functional team

Benefits and Perks:

Cafeteria system

Training budget €800 per year

Integration meetings (internal training, hackathon, integration trips and meetings)

Referral Bonus

Startup atmosphere

No dress code

Flexible hours and working format – remote or hybrid

Modern office, Chillout zone, Standing desk, parking for bicycles, and a cloakroom with showers

Regular office lunches and integration meetings

We are blau direkt
Infrastructure service provider for brokerage companies in the insurance industry.
Our business is to provide infrastructure services to insurance brokers. We manage
data, documents, claims, and most importantly: communication! blau direkt facilitates
the work of over 1,400 insurance brokers and distributors.
As a technology market leader, we offer brokerage companies in the insurance industry
the most modern infrastructure services and a tried and tested touchpoint management
system, which fundamentally sets us apart from other broker pools in Germany.
We are just opening a new R&D center, where we build engineering teams to support the
most crucial blau direkt products.
Insurance and finance are dull? Not with blau direkt!
We have made it our task to digitize and simplify the originally very paper‑heavy and
time‑consuming work of our partners with the help of our solutions. Together as a team,
we are driving new standards in the industry.
Talk to us and be a part of this experience from the beginning, which gives you the
unique opportunity to really make an impact on how we do things.