Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Company Description

Shiji Group provides software solutions and services for the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hotel management solutions, to food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more.

Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, and later changed to a software provider for the whole consumer market, Shiji Group today comprises 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands, serving over 91,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants and 600,000 retail outlets.

Shiji is committed to connecting the global business of hospitality. We provide an integrated suite of technological solutions that empower hotel, retail, food, and entertainment companies to better connect with their guests. 

Job Description

You will be designing, implementing and maintaining an infrastructure that is hosting a microservices-based application on AWS. Mission-critical, stable, long-term global product.

The decision-making center for infrastructure-related topics is located directly inside our team. We choose the technologies, we design the architecture. We implement it. We maintain it. 

From a Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer we require basic technical knowledge, more than technical skills we value his can-do attitude and ability to learn being guided in the right direction.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Provide Support for development teams working on innovative cloud-based application for Hospitality Industry
• Designing and implementing infrastructure-related automation tools
• Automating DevOps internal workflows

Our daily work:

• We use Kanban to manage tasks 
• Our teamwork is based on Jira 
• We participate in daily, weekly and retro meetings 
• We use Gitlab as a code repository with a trunk-based development approach 
• We use Gitlab CI to automate our (and other’s) jobs 
• We build environments in AWS with Terraform/Terragrunt 
• We develop deployment solutions for Kubernetes 
• We support local environments with Docker/docker-compose (for developers) 
• We create libraries, tools and AWS Lambdas in Python 
• We create Docker images for automation and internal usage 
• We act using the “Everything as Code” philosophy 
• We do not release applications to the environments (there is a dedicated team of Release Managers) 
• We use MS Teams to spread knowledge and participate in meetings 

Technologies used in our team:

• AWS 
• Terraform 
• Kubernetes 
• Ansible 
• Elasticsearch 
• Kafka 
• PostgreSQL 
• VictoriaMetrics 
• Hashicorp stack 
• Gitlab 
• Nexus 

Our System:

• Our primary cloud service provider is AWS. We use most of the popular services including EC2, S3, RDS, SES, SNS and many more 
• We write all of our infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt 
• Our application that is written in .NET Core runs on top of Kubernetes cluster deployed in EKS 
• We have very large observability stack that includes collecting logs and metrics and visualizing it in Grafana and Kibana 
• DevOps Team are also responsible for managing GitLab, Jenkins and Nexus 
• We write our internal tool set using Python and Golang 

Qualifications

• Experience in managing and troubleshooting GNU/Linux operating systems.
• Experience working with Docker and docker-compose.
• Basic networking skills.
• Basic programming skills (Bash or Python preferred).
• Basic knowledge of AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda) or similar cloud platforms.

Nice to have:

• Experience with CI/CD processes using GitLab.

Additional Information

How we work – hybrid work:

• Employees up to 50 km from the office (Katowice) – 4 times a month 
• Employees from 50 to 100 km from the office – 2 times a month
• Employees over 100 km: fully remote work

Hiring Process

Intro Call (~30 min) – A quick chat with our HR team to get to know each other and see if we’re a good match. 

Technical Interview – A deep dive into your experience and problem-solving approach with our team. 

Final Interview (30 min) – A last conversation with HM to discuss key aspects of our collaboration and answer any questions you may have. 

Feedback & Final Decision – We value your time, so we won’t keep you waiting. Expect clear feedback and next steps shortly after. 

What Do We Offer? 

The Essentials 

• Choose your preferred form of employment (B2B or CoE) 
• Lloyd’s insurance (available for B2B contractors) 
• Glasses subsidy (300 PLN/year for CoE employees) 

Health & Well-being 

• Private medical care, including a dental package, for you and your family 
• Group life insurance for you and your partner 
• Multisport card as part of the Worksmile package 

Work & Growth 

• 40 hours for professional development during work hours 
• Free group language lessons 
• Unlimited access to Udemy courses 

Additional Perks 

• Worksmile cafeteria with 500 or 310 points per month (depending on other benefit choices) 
• Referral bonus
• Chill room with table football and PlayStation 

Clause Regarding the Prohibition of Assistance Tools During Recruitment Interviews

In the interest of equal opportunity and transparency in the recruitment process, we would like to inform you that during job interviews (both remote and in-person), the following are not permitted: – the use of tools based on artificial intelligence (AI), including chatbots, response generators, translators, or content creation aids, – recording of interviews without prior and explicit consent from a company representative, – the use of applications that generate automatic notes or transcriptions of meetings (e.g., Notion AI, Otter.ai, Fireflies, etc.).

Sounds good? Let’s talk!  

You can apply by sending your CV by Apply Now or to the Talent Partner Anna Moskal-Chabowska

Please don’t forget to put the clauses you accept in your resume:

I agree that my personal data will be processed by Shiji Poland Sp. z o. o. in order to recruit for the position I am applying for.

I agree to the processing of my personal data by Shiji Poland Sp. z o. o. for the needs of future recruitment.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.