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The Rolecommunity. You are "in the squad but not of the squad" - you enable and support the squad rather than taking over all its DevOps work, and you actively push it
towards operational excellence instead of only picking up assigned tasks.
Salary: from 3.000 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
- Write and maintain infrastructure as code - Terraform is the primary tool across both AWS and Azure, complemented by Serverless, CloudFormation, Helm and Chef on legacy on-premise systems
- Support squads on the shared CI/CD tooling (Jenkins standard pipelines, Bitbucket, SonarQube, artifact repositories) - resolve pipeline failures and train the squad on how the pipelines work
- Help deploy and maintain applications across AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3, Kinesis) and Azure (AKS, Cosmos DB, Virtual Machines)
- Work with the squad to make sure operational requirements are implemented in time - monitoring and alerting, cost management, documentation, operational validation before go-live
- Set up new projects and components in line with company standards (naming and tagging conventions, repository, pipeline and quality gate setup)
- Anticipate what the squad will need from the central TechOps and platform teams, raise and refine those requests early, and keep the communication between development and operations flowing
- Spread your knowledge into the squad - train squad members on day-to-day tasks (deployment jobs, editing Terraform code) and keep the genuinely complex work (module development, tooling) with the DevOps team
- Contribute to shared DevOps practices, tooling and automation together with experienced DevOps engineers across regions
- Use AI tools proficiently in your daily work
- Passionate, results-focused, good communicator
- Experience working in a corporate environment
- Strong relationship management skills
- Stress resistant
- Team player
- Motivator
- Self-driven
- Ability to work in and manage through complex environments
- Comfortable influencing and advising development teams rather than only executing tasks
- Very good level of spoken and written English
- Terraform: Hands-on experience writing and maintaining modules and environments
- Public cloud: AWS and/or Azure - solid working knowledge of core services
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS)
- CI/CD: Jenkins (pipeline as code), Git and Bitbucket workflows, static analysis (SonarQube), artifact repositories (Nexus, JFrog)
- Scripting
Bash - advanced; Python, Groovy, NodeJS - optional - Observability
Metrics, alerting and dashboards; experience supporting production systems - Configuration
Secrets and configuration management (e.g. SOPS or an equivalent), environment-based configuration - Databases Basics - Mongo, MySQL
- Linux: Basic administration
- AI tools
Beyond chatbot level: AI coding assistants and agents (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor or similar) for IaC, scripting and automation - English: Advanced, both written and verbal (mandatory)
- Chef (or another configuration management tool) for on-premise estates
- Azure certification at AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) level, or the AWS equivalent
- Agile software methodology - SCRUM, KANBAN
- Machine learning fundamentals - model training and evaluation, ML pipelines and deployment
While many of our roles involve just 2–3 steps, some client processes may include additional conversations. Regardless of the path, we aim to keep every step transparent and respectful of your time.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience working in a corporate environment
- Very good spoken and written English
- Linux server administration
- AWS and Azure cloud services experience
- Azure DevOps Continuous Integration experience
- Advanced Bash scripting
- Basic MongoDB database knowledge
- Python, Groovy, or Node.js experience
- Azure Service Fabric experience
- Agile Scrum methodology experience
- Design Patterns knowledge
- Git experience
Ness Digital Engineering Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ness Digital Engineering and has not been reviewed or approved by Ness Digital Engineering.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is often positioned as comprehensive, with medical and dental described as strong in North America. Wellness programs are also emphasized as part of the core package.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible or remote work options are frequently highlighted as part of the overall rewards experience. Learning and upskilling support is repeatedly framed as a meaningful benefit tied to the employee value proposition.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as generally “okay to good,” with stronger packages appearing for certain senior roles and some U.S. positions. This suggests compensation can be market-aligned when role level and geography are favorable.
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What We Do
Ness Digital Engineering, acquired by global investment firm KKR in 2022, is a full-lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Headquartered in New York, Ness serves our customers across 11 innovation hubs in the US, Eastern Europe, and India. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. For more information, visit www.ness.com






