Senior Cloud and Containerization Engineer (GKE)

Project info:

A platform that has been in production for over two decades is moving off virtual machines and onto Google Kubernetes Engine. That sentence makes it sound like a packaging exercise. It is not.

The platform is extensible at runtime: its users deploy their own plugins, rules and domain extensions into it while it runs. So what is actually executing inside a given container is not fully known at the moment the image is built. Reconciling that with immutable images is the central open design question of this migration, and nobody has the answer written down yet. If that problem sounds interesting rather than alarming, keep reading.

Responsibilities:

You work on the application side of the migration. A dedicated platform team already operates the Kubernetes and GKE infrastructure, so this is not a cluster administration role and you will not be on call for the platform. You prepare application workloads to run on GKE, build and maintain the delivery pipelines behind them, and solve the migration problems that only appear once real traffic moves.

The work is not a lift and shift. Parts of the system predate the cloud native tooling that now replaces them, including an in house process scheduler that is being retired, so some of what you touch gets redesigned rather than wrapped.

Job requirements:

This is an unusual list in one respect: our client stated explicitly that there is no nice to have tier. Every line is a requirement, and you will be asked to demonstrate each one in the technical interview.

Hands on GCP and GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

Docker

• Terraform
• AnsibleCI/CD, with Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Python
• Core Java and Spring Boot, enough to read and work with the application code7+ years of commercial experience
• English at working level, in a team split across Europe and India
• Benefits:

General benefits - depends on the form of employment Hybrid work model combining office & remote work (Kraków, hybrid, three days per week on site)

Standard business hours. No shift work, no on-call duty

Fully remote is considered only where the experience or the fit is exceptional. If that is you, apply anyway and say soAttractively located office with collaboration spaces

Onsite parking space for employees Referral program with financial bonus Life Insurance Budget for development (including language courses and others), clear career path with the possibility to gain experience in international environment Access to internal Learning Platform with multiple trainings oriented for professional growth Lifestyle benefits: Access to MyBenefit platform (Multisport included) Team Building activities Charity initiatives Working environment promoting diversity and inclusion Health benefits: Private medical care - Platinum Package