[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Ciklum

Role Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team full-time in Poland. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be part of a Messaging Integrations team within a client operating in the online food delivery domain, helping to build world-class messaging solutions. You will work alongside a team of engineers supporting other engineering teams by providing capabilities, tools, and support that enable consistent, safe, and fast delivery.

Messaging acts as the central nervous system of the platform and microservices landscape. The team focuses on enabling integrations in this space, with an emphasis on innovation, efficiency, and reliability. The goal is to simplify messaging, allowing product and engineering teams to focus on customer value. The role involves contributing to the design and architecture of the developer experience, as well as cloud-based messaging and microservices platforms, and is well-suited for engineers who enjoy solving complex, event-driven challenges and thinking outside the box.

Responsibilities

• Strong interest in event-driven and microservices architectures, with focus on how systems communicate and scale
• Good understanding of APIs (both synchronous and asynchronous) and their role in distributed systems
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams across multiple locations, supporting best practices, standards, and system design from a platform/infrastructure perspective
• Act as a supportive partner for engineering teams, helping to solve challenges related to messaging, integrations, and system reliability
• Contribute to improving platform capabilities, tooling, and processes that enable teams to deliver services efficiently and safely
• Take ownership of workstreams, track progress, and communicate updates clearly within the team
• Drive continuous improvement by suggesting and implementing better processes, designs, and operational practices
• Ensure solutions are reliable in production, supporting stability, performance, and scalability
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure smooth operation

Requirements

• Deliver and support reliable platform and infrastructure solutions, ensuring quality and stability across the lifecycle
• Basic understanding of coding/scripting (e.g. Go, C#, or similar) to support automation and platform tasks
• Hands-on experience with messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka, SNS/SQS), event-driven architecture, and/or real-time data/streaming concepts
• Ability to work independently and collaborate to solve complex infrastructure and system challenges
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong analytical thinking and communication skills
• Hands-on exposure to messaging systems, event-driven architecture, or real-time data/streaming concepts

Desirable

• Knowledge of C# .NET
• HTTP, REST or other API technologies (we use OpenSpec or AsyncAPI)
• Modern DevOps mentality, frequent CI/CD release cycles, aware of the value of self service
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as pulumi, CDK, terraform
• Working in microservices and event-driven architecture
• Serverless computing and cloud architecture patterns
• Working within an e-commerce business where reliability is critical
• Experience with frameworks to manage containerized workloads and services, such as Kubernetes

Benefits

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Flexibility: Enjoy flexibility – full remote working possibilities
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations