DevOps Lead (Kafka and DataStage)

Quick Facts

• Hybrid remote work (~2 days from the office in Gdańsk)

• Start: ASAP (within ~1 month)

• B2B assignment; project language: English

• Duration: 12+ months with potential extensions

• Workload: 40 hours/week

Description

The DevOps Lead provides technical leadership to ensure the stability and continuous improvement of complex enterprise environments. You will be hands-on with systems and technical challenges, leading proactive monitoring and troubleshooting while driving automation to reduce manual operational effort. The role also supports CI/CD and deployment improvements and enhances monitoring, logging, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for environment stability, platform health, and continuous improvement

• Work hands-on with environments, configurations, deployments, and troubleshooting

• Drive proactive monitoring, health checks, and early identification of technical issues

• Lead resolution of complex L3 platform and environment-related incidents

• Identify recurring technical problems and drive permanent solutions and automation

• Improve reliability, resilience, and recoverability of environments

• Reduce manual operational activities through automation

• Support and improve CI/CD and deployment processes

• Coordinate technical upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation

• Support system and environment configuration

• Improve monitoring, logging, and observability

• Support management of certificates, service accounts, and technical dependencies

• Collaborate with Development, Application Management, and Infrastructure teams

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to System Team members

Requirements

• Strong experience maintaining complex enterprise environments

• Practical experience with IBM MDM, DataStage, Kafka, WAS, or IBM IIDR/CDC

• Solid Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills

• Understanding of CI/CD methodologies

• Experience with automation and technical improvements

Benefits

• Long-term engagement: 12+ months with potential extensions

• Full-time workload: 40 hours/week

• Hybrid work model with limited office presence