DevOps Lead Kafka and Datastage

• Remote work: hybrid - about 2 days from the office in Gdańsk.

• Start: ASAP / 1 month.

• Assignment type: B2B.

• Project language: English.

• Project length: > 12 months + prolongations.

• Industry: banking,.

• Workload: 40 hours per week.

Summary: The role of the DevOps Lead is to provide technical leadership in ensuring the stability and continuous improvement of complex enterprise environments. The primary objective is hands-on management of systems, environments, and technical challenges, leading the team towards enhanced operational efficiency.

Main Responsibilities:

• Take 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.

• Drive reduction of 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.

• Work closely with Development, Application Management, and Infrastructure teams.

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to System Team members.

Key Requirements:

• Strong experience in 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.