🔹Who we are!

At Levi9, we are passionate about what we do. We love our work and together in a team, we are smarter and stronger. We are looking for skilled team players who make change happen. Are you one off these players?

🔹About the project 

Backbase is a Dutch banking software financial technology company that provides a banking infrastructure software platform that it calls engagement banking. The system is used by financial institutions globally from large banks to credit unions and community banks.

🔹About the Role 

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior or Lead Systems Engineer (DevOps) to join our client’s team — a company at the forefront of AI-powered engagement banking platform. This role is critical to building and maintaining secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure in Azure, with a strong emphasis on automation, GitOps, and cloud-native technologies.

🔹Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure and resilient Azure infrastructure to support banking runtimes. 
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and compliance with strict uptime and cost-efficiency targets. 
• Implement and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps practices using Terraform/OpenTofu, Helm, Kubernetes, Istio, and ArgoCD. 
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives through scalable architecture and efficient resource usage. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with product and security requirements. 
• Promote automation-first principles across infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

🔹Must-Have Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, with 3+ years of deep hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure. 

• 2+ years of experience with: Kubernetes; ArgoCD; Helm; Istio; GitHub Actions; Terraform or OpenTofu 

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps methodologies. 
• Proven ability to work independently and proactively in a fast-paced, results-driven environment. 
• Excellent communication skills in English (B2 level or higher).

🔹Soft Skills

• Clear and concise communicator. 
• Proactive, self-motivated, and outcome-oriented. 
• Strong problem-solving mindset with a no-nonsense approach to delivery.

🔹Nice-to-Have Qualifications 

• Experience working on banking projects, in the fintech domain, or within product-oriented organizations. 
• Background in software development or networking/VPN infrastructure.

🔹9 reasons to join us:

1. Today we're working with the technology of tomorrow.
2. We don't wait for a change. We are the change.
3. We're experts in creating experts (Levi9 academy, Lead9 program for leaders).
4. No micromanagement. We are free birds with a clear understanding of what the high performance is!
5. Learning in Levi9 never stops (unlimited Udemy for business, meetups, English&German courses, Professional trainings).
6. Here you can train your body and mind.
7. We've gathered the best locations - comfortable, cozy and pet-friendly offices in Kyiv (5 minutes from Olimpiyska metro station) and Lviv (overlooking the Stryiskyi Park) with regular offline internal events
8. We have master's degree in work-life balance.
9. We are actively supporting Ukraine with constant donations and volunteering

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