Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Description
At Coface, we make trade happen everyday.
Our 5,200 experts representing 80+ nationalities in 58 countries are united by a shared purpose: helping companies navigate through uncertainty by empowering them to make the right decisions and trade smarter in a complex world.
With nearly 80 years of global experience, we offer companies a full range of solutions: Trade Credit Insurance, Business Information, Debt Collection, SingleRisk insurance, Surety Bonds, Factoring — all driven by a unique data patrimony, cutting-edge technology, innovation and a deep understanding of the global economy.
Joining Coface means being part of a close-knit international organization, where your ideas matter.  We foster a culture of learning, collaboration and inclusion where you are given responsibilities and can see the impact of your actions.
Shape the future of trade with us. Join our Happeners!
 

Job Description
Platform Golden Path:
• Build the golden path that will allow us to add new micro-services to our stack in a matter of minutes.
• Improve existing automations (pipelines, IaC) to be able to release more often, with more confidence.
• Migrate legacy pipelines.
• Enhance the developper workstation
• build our agentic platform providing AI capabilities to our clients

Reliability SRE practice:
• Improve dashboarding and alerting using Instana / Grafana.
• Help reduce toil by automating responses to recurrent requests.

Run the platform:
Shared incident response, platform maintenance on the various components. Day-to-day support for 8+ development teams.

Qualifications
Must have:
• 5+ years in DevOps, platform or SRE roles, including real production ownership.
• Kubernetes in depth. Workload scheduling, resource requests and limits, probes, disruption budgets, security contexts, ingress, and the ability to debug a failing rollout.
• Helm and Kustomize. You have designed a chart that other teams depend on, and lived with the consequences. Or you have built Kustomize bases and overlays that several applications deploy from.
• CI/CD pipeline engineering at scale. GitLab CI is strongly preferred. The transferable part is having built shared, versioned pipeline abstractions used by many repositories.
• Docker image authoring: multi-stage builds, small non-root images, build caching, registries.
• Infrastructure as code. Terraform and Ansible: roles and modules you wrote and maintained.
• Automation in Python, Bash or other languages. Clean, tested, reviewable code. Part of this platform is Python / Bash scripting, and it is held to the same standard as application code.
• Observability fundamentals. Metrics, logs and traces, how to use them, how to troubleshoot an app misbehaving.
• Git and code review as a discipline. Trunk-adjacent branching, conventional commits, small reviewable changes.

Strongly desirable:
• HashiCorp Vault and secret management patterns in Kubernetes.
• Prometheus and Grafana as an author: PromQL, recording rules, dashboards as code.
• Supply-chain security: SBOM generation, CI checks.
• Kafka operations (topics, ACLs, consumer lag) and enough SQL, Oracle and MSSQL to be useful during an incident.
• Jenkins pipelines knowledge.
• Experience supporting Java / Spring Boot and Angular delivery specifically.
• Working effectively with AI coding tools on real infrastructure code, as an accelerator you keep under review.
• Experience defining and operating service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs) and alerting strategies.

Additional Information
What We Offer
• Involvement in a strategic, innovation-focused project with strong business impact
• Exposure to modern technologies and cloud-based architecture
• Cross-border collaboration with teams in CER countries
• A supportive and agile working environment
• Opportunities for growth and development in a fast-paced, high-impact area

What is it like to work at Coface? 
This is a hybrid role based in our Bucharest office. We encourage our employees to take care of themselves with things like short Fridays, private healthcare, vouchers – meal, vacation, gift, and more