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Bucharest, ROU
Hybrid
Senior
Swicon Group is one of the leading members of the IT arenafor almost a decade, since 2017 present also in Romania. Our widerange of services and highly trained professionals give us theopportunity to shape our solutions to fully meet the ideas andwishes of our clients. We are proud to have leading banks,insurance and telecommunication companies, as well as largeFMCG corporations and SSCs amongst our highly prestigiouspartners
Technology & Ideal Candidate:
• Hands-on experience in DevOps engineering with RHEL/Linux, JBoss, Apache Web Server, Oracle SQL, Bash, and Ansible.
• Ability to design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across provisioning to production.
• Experience with troubleshooting, incident response, RCA, and performance analysis of live systems.
• 3 years of experience in production-grade DevOps environments.
Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong context-switching abilities.
• Team-oriented mindset and proactive ownership.
Mission:
As a DevOps Engineer, you will ensure application reliability, operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement. You will collaborate closely with developers, QA, Product Owners, DBAs, Network, Security, and SRE.
Your Day to Day:
Application Reliability & Troubleshooting
• Perform detailed incident investigations using logs, metrics, traces, runtime diagnostics, and performance indicators to quickly identify and isolate faults.
• Optimize, tune, and troubleshoot the application across Test, Acceptance, and Production, ensuring stable and predictable behavior under varying load conditions
• Execute root cause analysis (RCA) and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve reliability, reduce recurring issues, and increase service resilience.
• Monitor and contribute to improving SLO, availability, capacity, performance, and operational KPIs, leveraging SRE reliability frameworks.
• Escalate complex issues with structured diagnostics, logs, RCA summaries, and actionable recommendations
________________________________________
Infrastructure, Web Servers & Load Balancing
• Configure, harden, and maintain web servers (JBoss, Apache) and supporting components such as NGINX, ensuring alignment with performance, security, and operational standards.
• Support and refine Oracle related configurations, contributing to performance, stability, and optimal integration within the application ecosystem.
• Contribute to service reliability by validating end to end flow across infrastructure layers (network, proxy, application, database).
________________________________________
Automation & CI/CD
• Design, build, and maintain automation workflows using Azure DevOps, Ansible, and Bash/Python to streamline deployments, configuration updates, and routine operational tasks.
• Stabilize and enhance CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable build, test, and deployment processes with proper governance, automated quality checks, and consistent standards across all environments.
• Identify and automate manual activities, reducing operational overhead and ensuring consistent, standardized processes throughout the application lifecycle.
________________________________________
Observability, Monitoring & Dashboards
• Maintain and extend the observability ecosystem by ensuring full coverage of logs, metrics, alerts, health checks, traces, and custom application insights.
• Build and refine dashboards, monitoring pipelines, and alert rules to provide real time visibility into system performance, capacity, availability, and error trends.
• Drive proactive monitoring by identifying patterns, detecting anomalies early, and improving the alerting signal to noise ratio.
________________________________________
Environment & Platform Operations
• Manage and validate non production and production environments, ensuring configuration consistency, readiness, and adherence to deployment standards.
• Perform OS patching, maintenance, and security hardening, ensuring systems meet compliance and security baselines.
• Maintain accurate and up to date runbooks, technical documentation, and operational procedures to support knowledge continuity and operational maturity.
________________________________________
Collaboration & Support
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and business partners to ensure seamless integration and operational alignment across all application components.
• Maintain and update ServiceNow tickets, ensuring clear documentation, prioritization, traceability, and correct escalation.
• Actively support Scrum delivery by contributing to user stories, Sprint activities, and cross functional ceremonies.
• Promote best practices, share knowledge, support onboarding, and mentor newer colleagues to build chapter-wide capability.
Technology & Ideal Candidate:
• Hands-on experience in DevOps engineering with RHEL/Linux, JBoss, Apache Web Server, Oracle SQL, Bash, and Ansible.
• Ability to design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across provisioning to production.
• Experience with troubleshooting, incident response, RCA, and performance analysis of live systems.
• 3 years of experience in production-grade DevOps environments.
Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong context-switching abilities.
• Team-oriented mindset and proactive ownership.
Mission:
As a DevOps Engineer, you will ensure application reliability, operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement. You will collaborate closely with developers, QA, Product Owners, DBAs, Network, Security, and SRE.
Your Day to Day:
Application Reliability & Troubleshooting
• Perform detailed incident investigations using logs, metrics, traces, runtime diagnostics, and performance indicators to quickly identify and isolate faults.
• Optimize, tune, and troubleshoot the application across Test, Acceptance, and Production, ensuring stable and predictable behavior under varying load conditions
• Execute root cause analysis (RCA) and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve reliability, reduce recurring issues, and increase service resilience.
• Monitor and contribute to improving SLO, availability, capacity, performance, and operational KPIs, leveraging SRE reliability frameworks.
• Escalate complex issues with structured diagnostics, logs, RCA summaries, and actionable recommendations
________________________________________
Infrastructure, Web Servers & Load Balancing
• Configure, harden, and maintain web servers (JBoss, Apache) and supporting components such as NGINX, ensuring alignment with performance, security, and operational standards.
• Support and refine Oracle related configurations, contributing to performance, stability, and optimal integration within the application ecosystem.
• Contribute to service reliability by validating end to end flow across infrastructure layers (network, proxy, application, database).
________________________________________
Automation & CI/CD
• Design, build, and maintain automation workflows using Azure DevOps, Ansible, and Bash/Python to streamline deployments, configuration updates, and routine operational tasks.
• Stabilize and enhance CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable build, test, and deployment processes with proper governance, automated quality checks, and consistent standards across all environments.
• Identify and automate manual activities, reducing operational overhead and ensuring consistent, standardized processes throughout the application lifecycle.
________________________________________
Observability, Monitoring & Dashboards
• Maintain and extend the observability ecosystem by ensuring full coverage of logs, metrics, alerts, health checks, traces, and custom application insights.
• Build and refine dashboards, monitoring pipelines, and alert rules to provide real time visibility into system performance, capacity, availability, and error trends.
• Drive proactive monitoring by identifying patterns, detecting anomalies early, and improving the alerting signal to noise ratio.
________________________________________
Environment & Platform Operations
• Manage and validate non production and production environments, ensuring configuration consistency, readiness, and adherence to deployment standards.
• Perform OS patching, maintenance, and security hardening, ensuring systems meet compliance and security baselines.
• Maintain accurate and up to date runbooks, technical documentation, and operational procedures to support knowledge continuity and operational maturity.
________________________________________
Collaboration & Support
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and business partners to ensure seamless integration and operational alignment across all application components.
• Maintain and update ServiceNow tickets, ensuring clear documentation, prioritization, traceability, and correct escalation.
• Actively support Scrum delivery by contributing to user stories, Sprint activities, and cross functional ceremonies.
• Promote best practices, share knowledge, support onboarding, and mentor newer colleagues to build chapter-wide capability.
What You Bring
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, including automation, deployment workflows, operational reliability, and excellent technical documentation skills.
• Good knowledge of monitoring, resilience, and performance tuning, especially in environments using Oracle databases
• Scripting skills (Ansible, Bash, Python)
• Solid UNIX/Linux expertise with strong troubleshooting abilities across system, application, and infrastructure layers.
• Hands on CI/CD experience, particularly with Azure DevOps, covering build, test, release, and environment governance.
• Experience with modern observability stacks, including logging and monitoring tools such as ELK, Grafana, Zabbix, Kibana, Prometheus.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, able to quickly diagnose issues and propose effective solutions.
• Familiarity with Scrum and ITIL, comfortable operating within Agile delivery and operational governance frameworks.
• Understanding of both monolithic and microservices architectures, including how they differ from an operational, deployment, and reliability perspective.
• Webservers expertise is mandatory, with hands on experience configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting platforms like JBoss, Apache, and NGINX.
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„The whole hiring process was a really positive experience for me. I was given the opportunity to move forward professionally and to test myself in a new, more senior role. I was trusted from the start, and I had all the support I needed to take the next step in my career with confidence. They connected me with the right technical contact, and every question I had was answered quickly and clearly, so I never felt left on my own. Communication was smooth, each step built on the one before, and the whole process moved surprisingly fast and without a hitch.”
K. R. – Solution Architect
“Looking back over more than 15 years, Swicon gets top marks from me: it has built itself into a fast-growing multinational, and all the while it has backed its people professionally across the board — it even supported my PMP certification with a proper training course.”
B. T. – Sr. Projectmanager
“I’ve been working with SWICON for almost a year and a half now, and it’s been a positive experience from start to finish. Both the hiring process and the admin side of things ran smoothly, and whenever I had a question, help came quickly. I particularly appreciate how kind and helpful my colleagues are, and the fact that the company genuinely invests in building a community — there are regular programmes and events.
I’ve grown a lot professionally in my time here, too. My tasks and my responsibilities have kept widening, I’ve been able to take on more complex challenges, and I’ve also had the chance to support and mentor others. On the IT side I’ve been given opportunities that made a real difference to where I am professionally, so on the whole I see SWICON as a supportive place that gives you genuine room to grow.”
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