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.