DevOps Engineer

Life at Ness
At Ness, people come first. Here, you'll be part of a vibrant team that values curiosity, innovation, and growth. We work with industry-leading clients on projects that truly make an impact while supporting every team member in carving out their unique career path. With resources for learning, certifications, and hands-on experiences, Ness offers you more than just a job—it’s a place where your ideas, ambition, and well-being matter.
The Role
We are seeking a skilled and self-driven DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and help build, optimize, and secure modern cloud infrastructure. This role is ideal for professionals who thrive in dynamic, high-impact environments and have deep hands-on experience across CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, cloud services (especially AWS), and Infrastructure. We are looking for DevOps Engineer with 4 years of experience ideally in Financial Industry. The role will primarily focus on deployments, and it is important to be open to learning the client product and related technologies.
Salary: from 1900 EUR/month, depending on skills and experience + benefits. The final offer for the selected candidate will reflect the candidate´s comprehensive assessment, skills, and past work experience.
Location: Slovakia only
Key Responsibilities
- Perform client solution upgrades across XSE environments, ensuring smooth deployments with minimal service disruption.
- Troubleshoot, resolve complex infrastructure, and platform issues related to Kubernetes, Karpenter, node affinity, and cluster configurations.
- Manage both Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) and customized container images, including configuration comparisons and alignment with standard product releases.
- Execute end-to-end AVA installation and configuration activities, including deployment, validation, testing, and technical documentation.
- Configure, validate, and support Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations across multiple environments.
- Investigate and resolve infrastructure, application, deployment, and configuration issues encountered during upgrade and implementation projects.
- Collaborate closely with Development, DevOps, R&D, and customer teams to ensure timely issue resolution and successful project delivery.
- Support Production, UAT, and Development environments through deployments, upgrades, validations, and post-implementation activities
Qualifications and Skills
· Strong ability to work independently or lead smaller DevOps initiatives
· Experience supporting fast-paced waterfall teams with automation and tooling
· Excellent debugging and root cause analysis skills in distributed environments
· Strong communication skills, ability to interact with cross-functional teams and clients
Core Skills
Containerization: Strong understanding of Docker and containerized application deployment principles.
Amazon EKS & Kubernetes: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes fundamentals, including Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Persistent Volumes.
CI/CD Pipelines: Familiari