DevOps Engineer for Payment (m/f/d)

Location: Košice, Košice Region, sk

Company Description

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

Job Description

We are looking for a DevOps / Operations Engineer (Agile) to support our Lynx payment team. You will help ensure the availability, stability, and continuous improvement of our payment platform.
At our Digital Hub for Credit & Collection, we work in agile teams and take full ownership of our applications – from development to operations.

Application

The application MPS (Magenta Payment System) is our central platform for processing payments such as PayPal, Credit Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.
The platform runs on a private cloud with geo-redundancy and is planned to be extended to public cloud environments.

Purpose

DevOps Engineer is responsible for entire lifecycle of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines and Infrastructure as Code approaches. Takes account and defines automated configuration management, release management, build, test and deployment activities.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Ensure stable daily operation of the payment platform
• Work closely with developers, product owners, and partners
• Monitor and improve application performance and reliability
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)
• Support releases and deployments to test and production environments
• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting (Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Analyze logs and support incident resolution (3rd level support)
• Translate requirements into user stories and technical solutions
• Contribute to automation and continuous improvement
• Support testing and integration activities
• Act as a link between development and operations

Qualifications

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

Technical Skills

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)
• Basic knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Experience with monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Basic understanding of cloud environments (AWS/GCP)
• Ability to understand application code (Java / JavaScript)
• Knowledge of microservices

Mindset

• Ownership and responsibility for applications
• Proactive and solution-oriented approach
• Interest in automation and continuous improvement
• Comfortable working in international teams

Soft Skills

• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving mindset
• Structured and self-driven way of working

Language

• English (B2+)
• German (nice to have)

Optional Skills

• Knowledge of data security and privacy processes
• Experience with cloud migration
• Have secondary education of Information technologies – Master
• Have experiences with Agile Methodology, Scrum and SAFe

Additional Information

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2100 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.