Software Engineer (DevOps mindset)

Advertised Category: 
Java
Category Description: 
Information Technology\Java
Level: 
Permanent
Country: 
Slovakia
City: 
Kosice
Keywords: 
Java
Spring
DevOps
CI/CD
IaC
GitOps
GitHub Actions
Salary: 
From 3200 EUR/m, depending on skills and experience salary might be higher

About the Client

Our client is an international company and a global leader in Business Process Excellence area and is bringing their own products as well as consulting services to global market - Software for monitoring of company processes, SOA integrations, strategy planning etc.

Employee perks, benefits:
- Hybrid Working – work (partially) from home and from office in Kosice
- Good work-life balance by flexible working time
- Opportunity to work on important and challenging products used by large enterprises all over the world
- Excellent remuneration package with additional social and medical benefits
- Annual financial bonus up to 200% of the monthly salary
- Extra Vacation days
- Sickness days
- Technical courses and certifications
- Language courses
- Career development
- Comfortable working environment with free coffee and water
- Open-minded corporate culture with flat hierarchy

About the Role

For our client we are looking for a Software Engineer with a strong DevOps mindset to join Developer Platform team in Košice. This is a development-focused role in a small, highly technical team. You will design and build internal services, automation, and developer tooling in a modern, cloud-native, GitOps-driven environment. Your mission is not classic operations, but to improve developer experience and productivity by owning and evolving internal platform components.

Responsibilities

Software Engineering & Platform Development:
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services for internal platforms and developer tooling
- Build and evolve internal developer platform components and development-related services
- Develop automation and self-service solutions that improve developer productivity and delivery speed
- Take end-to-end ownership of internal services (design, implementation, documentation, maintenance)

DevOps & Cloud Enablement:
- Implement GitOps-based deployments using Argo CD and Helm
- Manage platform infrastructure and components using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu)
- Drive the architectural design and evolution of CI/CD, deployment, and QA pipelines, including performance and reliability improvements.
- Define, evolve, and implement branching models and repository structures that support efficient development and delivery.
- Work with containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:
- Collaborate closely with Cloud Operations and build/process teams
- Improve repository structures, workflows, and delivery processes
- Proactively identify improvement opportunities and drive them forward
- Share knowledge and ensure backup coverage within a small, efficient team

Requirements

- Several years of hands-on software development experience (strongly preferred Java / Spring Boot and experience building backend services and REST APIs)
- Experience working in cloud-native environments, ideally AWS
- Solid understanding of containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with Git-based workflows
- Strong sense of ownership, self-motivation, and responsibility
- Good communication skills in English and a collaborative mindset

Nice to Have Skills

- Experience with JS/TS and React
- GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Helm)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu)
- CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions)
- Experience with Kafka, MongoDB, or Redis
- Curiosity about AI-driven automation and modern productivity tooling

How to apply
In case of your interest to apply for this position, please, send us your curriculum vitae in English language on jobs@sourcefirstinternational.com .
Mission statement

Our mission is to offer variety of matching jobs to qualified candidates and fulfil our client recruitment and project needs. We have decided to operate and source in Eastern European countries.

Contact us

Klariská 14, 811 03 Bratislava, Slovakia
Lidická 700/19, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

www.sourcefirstinternational.com jobs@sourcefirstinternational.com Phone: +421 903 427089
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