Cloud Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Hi, we are Vodeno. We are innovators in the Banking-as-a-Service space. Our technology is cloud-native, and our teams work in the cloud like fish in water. Supported by a leading global equity firm and the ecosystem of nearly 90 partners, our Platform opens new opportunities for businesses across Europe to integrate financial products and services into their solutions. As part of the UniCredit Group, Aion Bank and Vodeno will accelerate their digital banking offer in strategic markets and will act as a sandbox for innovation for the wider UniCredit Group. Based on financial sector know-how and expertise in cloud technology, we provide a set-up of customer-facing and daily banking services which include: digital onboarding, accounts, cards, payments, and lending with a white-label mobile app channel access. We are currently looking for a Cloud Engineer ready to join our adventure.

🏢 About Vodeno

Our values include: Client at the centre, Curiosity, Accountability, and Collaboration. We are defined by these principles and strive to deliver value to our clients while maintaining a culture of innovation and teamwork.

🎯 The Role

As a Cloud Engineer, you will work closely with our Cloud Team and software developers to support the engineering team in building & designing fault-tolerant applications and infrastructure. You will define container-based and sandbox deployment strategies, support cloud integrations, pipelines, and upgrades, and develop automation tools to ensure our services can run at scale with high availability.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with our Cloud Team and software developers
• Support the engineering team in building & designing fault-tolerant applications and infrastructure
• Define container-based and sandbox deployment strategies
• Support cloud integrations, pipelines, and upgrades
• Develop automation tools to ensure our services can run at scale with high availability
• Guard our infrastructure through increasing service security, redundancy, and monitoring
• Improve and monitor our CI/CD environment as well as server and network environments
• Support disaster recovery, backup, redundancy, and capacity planning activities
• Evangelize and coach Vodeno engineers on best practices
• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain the enterprise logging platform using Elastic Stack
• Actively contribute to improving the Elastic Stack ecosystem.
• Develop and manage high volume data ingestions and real-time data flow processes.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Great communication skills in English & Polish (written and verbal) / open to non-Polish speakers as well (willing to learn Polish)
• Cloud experience—maintaining applications for cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS), preferably GCP.
• Linux experience – Strong background in Linux administration (configuration & troubleshooting)
• Programming experience – Java, Python (a plus), Go, shell. If you speak Go then you will build cloud-based solutions using it.
• Operational experience – maintaining multilayer IT systems, application monitoring, deep-dive troubleshooting, performance analysis (CPU / memory),
• Hands-on knowledge of automation/configuration management tools: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet
• Experience with: Apache Kafka / Helm charts / ELK stack / Kibana / Gitlab
• Experience with Vmware
• Knowledge of project implementation methodology: Agile, Scrum
• Strong prioritization & troubleshooting skills
• Hands-on experience with supporting Elasticsearch in production, performance tuning, handling medium to large clusters.
• Hands-on experience in setting up Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to process data from multiple data sources.
• Hands-on experience with Kibana visualization strategies, controls, and techniques.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch index configuration, shading, aliases, ILM etc.
• Understand the Security and Access management concept for ECE and Elastic Stack.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Preferred experience with messaging – buffering tools like Redis, Kafka, PubSub.
• Preferred experience with ECE.
• Preferred experience with developing and managing high volume data ingestions and real-time data flow processes
• Preferred experience with data log streaming platforms and tools to ingest data from systems, applications, and access logs.
• GCP certifications such as Cloud Engineer or Cloud Architect are a plus.

🎁 Benefits

We offer a flexible form of contract according to your preference and the characteristics of the job. If you choose to be employed by us we offer tax relief for copyrights transfer (KUP). If your role permits, we also offer flexible work location. You will be provided an individual development budget, dedicated to enhancing your professional skills. You will have opportunities to grow: as a Google Cloud Partner, we organise Vodeno Cloud Academy and you can get officially certified by Google. You and your closest family will be covered with VIP-level private medical care which includes dental treatment and a hospitalisation package. We cover psychological consultations if you ever feel you need such support. We co-sponsor a sports card - Multisport. You will work on Apple MacBook - a computer equipment that delivers the best user experience. Our Warsaw office is nicely located with convenient commute options by public transport and by bike and offers healthy snacks throughout the day.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information was mentioned in the job posting.