Client Technology - DevX Principal Engineer - Tech Lead

Description

Role: DevOps Principal Engineer – Tech Lead Location: Katowice / Wrocław - hybrid Role Overview The DevOps Principal Engineer – Tech Lead provides senior technical leadership across cloud engineering, automation, and DevOps practices. The role blends hands-on engineering excellence with leadership responsibility to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient DevOps solutions across global, multi-region environments. The Principal Engineer collaborates with architects, product owners, QA, Security, and global engineering teams to define standards, guide solution design, and mature DevOps capabilities across the program.

Requirements

• Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Experience

• Leading global teams across time zones.

• Large‑scale CI/CD modernization

• SRE and observability implementation.

• FinOps and cloud cost optimization.

Zakres obowiązków

• 1. Technology Leadership & Solution Design

• Architect and implement DevOps solutions including CI/CD, containerization, IaC, and cloud‑native designs in Azure.

• Design multi‑stage CI/CD pipelines for complex applications with automation‑first, zero‑touch principles.

• Lead Helm chart design, Kubernetes manifests, and release templates for enterprise deployments.

• Drive AKS strategy: lifecycle, security, networking, scaling, and multi‑region resiliency.

• Ensure alignment with EY reference architectures, governance, and security controls.

• Evaluate and select DevOps and automation tooling to improve reliability and delivery velocity.

• Lead modernization from classic/legacy pipelines to YAML and GitHub Actions.

• 2. Delivery Oversight & Engineering Excellence

• Oversee backlog execution, ensuring automated build, test, and deployment processes.

• Drive consistent delivery of DevOps capabilities aligned to defined standards.

• Lead configuration management and environment alignment for multi‑region deployments.

• Lead troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis of complex deployment or automation incidents.

• Advance DevOps maturity through measurable improvements in delivery and reliability metrics.

• 3. Governance, Standards & Best Practices

• Promote automation‑first, GitOps, secure SDLC, YAML pipelines, and shift‑left.

• Implement mandatory scanning, secrets management, dependency governance, and hardening.

• Define standards for branching, versioning, Helm packaging, release governance, and promotions.

• Ensure compliance with EY security requirements using SonarQube, AquaSec, Mend.

• Establish RBAC, audit trails, and governance across Azure, AKS, and CI/CD.

• 4. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as senior DevOps authority for architecture, cybersecurity, QA, and product teams.

• Drive cross‑team decision‑making with clear communication and proactive risk escalation.

• Work with engineering leads to embed DevOps practices and self‑service capabilities.

• 5. Documentation & Team Development

• Maintain high‑quality documentation across architecture, CI/CD, runbooks, and dependencies.

• Mentor engineers and promote DevOps maturity across the organization.

• Deliver training on CI/CD, Kubernetes, automation, and DevOps best practices.

Requirements

• Cloud & Infrastructure (Azure) – Expert

• 5–10 years hands‑on Azure experience.

• Deep AKS expertise including cluster design, networking, security, RBAC, multi‑region deployments.

• Strong knowledge of Azure Networking, App Gateway/WAF, App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, Storage, Azure SQL, Traffic Manager, Key Vault, Service Bus, Monitoring suite.

• DevOps, CI/CD & Automation – Expert

• GitHub / ADO: branching, YAML pipelines, release governance.

• Advanced CI/CD design including platform migrations.

• Docker and multi‑stage Dockerfiles; image optimization.

• Helm expertise (required).

• Terraform or Bicep (preferred); ARM templates.

• Ansible/Ansible Tower (plus).

• Kubernetes & Orchestration – Expert

• Deployments, ingress, config maps, secrets, RBAC, network policies.

• HPA/VPA scaling; GitOps tooling (Flux/ArgoCD) preferred.

• Helm Charts expertise (required).

• Service mesh experience (Istio/Linkerd) desired.

• Security & Compliance – Advanced

• Experience with SonarQube, Mend, AquaSec.

• Secrets management with Key Vault or Vault.

• Container security and vulnerability management.

• Programming & Scripting – Proficient

Requirements

• Strong scripting in PowerShell, Bash or Python.

• Strong YAML proficiency for CI/CD and Kubernetes.

• API & Integration – Proficient

• REST APIs and integration patterns.

• Automation via Azure, GitHub, and Kubernetes APIs.

• Observability & Monitoring – Proficient

• Azure Monitor, App Insights, Grafana, Prometheus.

• Logging and analytics with Log Analytics.

• SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets.

• AI Knowledge (Plus)

• Experience with GitHub Copilot, AI agents, automation opportunities.

• Understanding of AI/ML ops or OpenAI integration (plus).