DevOps Engineer (Foundational Platforms)

Job Purpose

As a DevOps Engineer specialising in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) within RWS’s Foundational Platforms team, you will play a hands-on role in modernising and operating the infrastructure and delivery capabilities behind business-critical financial applications. Working across a combination of legacy platforms and new cloud-native solutions, you will help plan and execute safe migrations to GCP, improve reliability and scalability, and enable engineering teams to release software consistently and confidently. You will build and maintain containerised environments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), support and migrate databases using Cloud SQL, and develop automated continuous integration and delivery pipelines using GitHub and Terraform Cloud. Working closely with engineering, architecture, security, product and operations stakeholders across multiple teams, you will translate technical and business needs into secure, repeatable solutions, balancing modernisation with operational stability and business continuity. This is an individual contributor role with significant technical ownership, collaboration and practical delivery responsibility.

This is a Fixed-term contract role.

About Product & Technology

Product & Technology plays a pivotal role in aligning the organization with its strategic objectives and enhancing shareholder value. Product & Technology is responsible for establishing unified standards and governance practices throughout the company. Additionally, we oversee the development and maintenance of core applications essential for the seamless operation of various functions across the organization. We are committed to driving and executing future roadmaps that are in line with the overall strategic direction of RWS.

With a global reach, Product & Technology provides support services to over 7500 end users worldwide. We take pride in managing the information security operation and safeguarding all our assets. Our core functions encompass Enterprise & Technical Architecture, Network & Voice, Infrastructure, Service Delivery, Service Operations, Data & Analytics, Security & Quality Compliance, Transformation, Application Development, Enterprise Platforms, With a dedicated team of over 500 staff, Product & Technology ensures a strong presence across all regions, enabling efficient and effective support to our global operations.

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate reliable, secure and scalable GCP environments that support business-critical financial applications and services.
• Plan and deliver the migration of existing legacy applications, infrastructure and databases to GCP, taking a pragmatic, phased approach that minimises downtime, operational risk and disruption to business services.
• Deploy, configure and optimise containerised services on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), improving workload resilience, scalability, maintainability and operational consistency.
• Implement and support Google Cloud SQL environments, including database migrations, secure connectivity, backups, high availability, performance monitoring and controlled cutovers.
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitHub, embedding continuous integration, automated builds, tests, quality checks and repeatable deployments throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terraform Cloud, including reusable modules, workspaces, managed state and controlled changes across environments.
• Work alongside application engineering teams to modernise deployment approaches for legacy and modern applications, including .NET-based workloads where relevant, and enable safe, incremental releases.
• Embed effective observability and operational practices through logging, metrics, alerting, troubleshooting and incident response to improve the reliability and performance of production services.
• Apply cloud security and governance standards, including identity and access management, networking, secrets management and appropriate controls for financial systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, Quality and Operations to coordinate dependencies, resolve technical challenges and deliver shared platform improvements.
• Create clear technical documentation, deployment guidance and operational runbooks, share knowledge with teams and continuously improve automation, developer experience and delivery efficiency.

Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on experience in a DevOps, Cloud or Platform Engineering role, delivering and supporting production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Practical experience migrating legacy or on-premises applications and infrastructure into cloud environments, including migration planning, risk management, deployment transitions and service continuity.
• Strong experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes and Docker, including deploying, scaling, troubleshooting and operating containerised applications.
• Demonstrable experience with Google Cloud SQL, including database provisioning, migration, availability, backups, security and operational performance.
• Proven experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitHub, with a strong understanding of continuous integration, automated testing, build quality gates and deployment automation.
• Strong hands-on experience using Terraform and Terraform Cloud to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, including remote state, workspaces, reusable modules and governed infrastructure changes.
• Solid knowledge of core GCP services and cloud fundamentals, including IAM, networking, security, service accounts, monitoring and cost-aware architecture.
• Experience implementing production observability, alerting and incident-management practices, with an understanding of system reliability, scalability and recovery.
• Ability to automate operational tasks using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash or PowerShell, and to troubleshoot across infrastructure, deployments and applications.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across multiple engineering teams and engaging Product, Architecture, Security and Operations stakeholders to deliver shared outcomes.
• A pragmatic, delivery-focused approach to complex legacy estates; experience supporting .NET / .NET Framework applications and an interest in developer productivity and automation would be advantageous.

For all applicants in Poland and accordance with applicable pay transparency legislation, candidates will be informed of the salary range for this position prior to interview. Pay is determined without reference to previous salary history and is aligned to objective job-related criteria.

Life at RWS

Life at RWS- If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right - Partner, Pioneer, Progress - and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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