Principal DevOps Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026.
We are PHOENIX, a leading integrated healthcare provider in Europe, and we’re excited to invite you to be part of our journey. With a team of approximately 48,000 dedicated professionals, we make a significant impact on healthcare across the continent. Operating in 29 countries, we supply essential pharmaceuticals and health products to pharmacies, doctors, and medical institutions through our 224 distribution centers, serving millions of people every day.
Our international IT Hub in Sofia, Bulgaria, is growing, and we are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer. You’ll be part of an international team, working in a vibrant environment that encourages the exchange of knowledge and ideas both onsite and offsite.
Become part of one of Germany’s leading digital healthcare platforms and help us ensure reliable, secure, and scalable operations of our products and services. As part of our Product & Technology team, you will work closely with Engineering, Product, QA, and Support colleagues to continuously improve our cloud-native infrastructure and operational processes while contributing to a platform that supports millions of healthcare transactions.
Your Responsibilities:
- Maintaining and developing the CI/CD operation of the Java-based services running on OpenShift and deployed via Argo-CD.
- Maintain and develop, orchestrate and expand the said OpenShift clusters.
- Operate and expand the ArgoCD continuous delivery solution.
- Operate PGSQL in the capacity of a server administrator responsible for its uptime and DR.
- Linux OS Administration (any distribution)
- Contribute to 3rd-level technical support and participate in on-call IT operations support.
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub.
- Monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK stack.
- Collaborate with the team to ensure stable, secure, and scalable infrastructure operations following modern DevOps and security best practices.
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, QA, and Customer Support teams.
- Contribute to operational processes, incident handling, and change management activities.
Your Profile:
-Must haves:
- Experience operating Kubernetes/OpenShift-based environments and public cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling and containerized applications.
- Experience with PGSQL and administration best practices.
- Linux Administration (any distribution)
- Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. (Operating in a corporate hierarchy with Stakeholders, Product Owners, Team leads and multidepartment layout.)
- Good Spoken English.
-Nice to have:
- Experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with ELK stack or comparable logging solutions.
- Good understanding of IT security and operational best practices.
- Basic Windows and macOS administration know-how.
- Proactive, reliable, and solution-oriented mindset.
- German is a plus but not mandatory.
What We Offer:
- 26 days paid annual leave + 1 additional for your Birthday.
- Health insurance.
- Food vouchers.
- Flexible working time and options to work from home.
- Free parking.
- Sports venue pass fully covered.
- Learning and development.
- Employee discounts for company products and services.
With passion about our product vision in delivering health: creating a health platform that brings together all health services—pharmacies, doctors, and medical supply stores—under one roof. We look for people with the same drive as us. If you recognize this role as a career opportunity where you can make a real difference and be part of an innovative project, we’d love to hear from you!
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality