The Role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will define and implement set of tools necessary for full software lifecycle in hybrid infrastructure, ensuring the delivery of best-in-class software. This role is ideal for someone who’s deeply experienced in Linux systems, has a solid grasp of networking fundamentals, and enjoys working in environments that blend on-premises infrastructure with cloud-native patterns.
Key Responsibilities
Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments. In particular:
- Lead the definition of DevOps best practices, processes, and tools in the company.
Interact with colleagues across projects to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular:
- Work with hardware teams, influencing hardware/software co-design.
- Work with teams developing compilers, firmware, AI stacks, and middleware, and contribute as necessary.
- Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents.
- Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations).
- Design, build, and manage infrastructure across on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using Python, Go, and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
- Operate and fine-tune Linux servers, focusing on performance, observability, and resilience.
- Implement containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Champion cloud-native patterns — for private and public hosted solutions.
- Champion security practices, managing keys, safe GitOps pipelines etc etc
- Drive monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.
- Collaborate across distributed teams, contributing to technical decisions and long-term architecture.
- Help define and implement DevOps and DevSecOps practices, standards, and documentation from scratch.
- Understand and troubleshoot networking (DNS, firewalls, routing, VPNs, load balancing) in both virtualized and physical environments
Required Qualifications
Technical skills
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- 5+ years of DevOps / SRE / infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong Linux skills
- Solid networking knowledge your way around DNS and routing.
- Experience building automation and tooling in Python and Go.
- Hands-on experience with container technologies and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with hybrid and on-prem infrastructure management.
- Comfort with infrastructure as code and config management tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
- Fluency in English (written and spoken).
- Ownership mentality — proactive, accountable, and driven to solve problems independently.
- Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).
Soft Skills
- Team player: communicative and collaborative person who focuses on the outcome of the team above the
individual needs.
- Curious about learning new technologies/stacks.
- Capable of within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
- Can-do attitude, proactive and willing to step up and resolve any obstacle. Self-aware, self-starter, and
self-motivated.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with GitOps, monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana), and secrets management.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) — used as extensions, not core.
- Experience in a startup or zero-to-one environment.
- Interest in shaping internal tooling, automation standards, and culture.
What We Offer
- We believe in investing in our employees and providing them with opportunities for growth and career development.
- Work in a hybrid environment with flexible scheduling.
- We offer a remuneration package that values your experience.
- Join an innovative team and experience company growth.
- A chance to work on one of the most transformative AI and silicon engineering companies in Europe.
- Opportunity to travel to other countries in Europe to meet the teams, collaborate and drive solutions.
- The position will be based in Gdansk (Poland).
We are looking for outstanding people willing to join our mission to change the silicon industry and help build a better world. If you identify with Openchip, please contact us.
At Openchip & Software Technologies S.L., we believe a diverse and inclusive team is the key to groundbreaking ideas. We foster a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential—regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.