Who we are Bitrock is a high-end consulting and system integration company, strongly committed to offering cutting-edge and innovative solutions. Our tailored consulting services enable our clients to preserve the value of legacy investments while migrating to more efficient systems and infrastructure.

We take a holistic approach to technology: we consider each system in its totality, as a set of interconnected elements that work together to meet business needs. Data, AI & ML Engineering; Back-end Engineering, Platform Engineering, Front-end Engineering, Product Design & UX Engineering, Mobile App Development, Quality Assurance, FinOps, GovernanceThe effectiveness our solutions also stems from partnerships with key technology vendors, like HashiCorp, Confluent, Lightbend, Databricks, and Meterian. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with solid experience in enterprise environments and mission-critical infrastructures.

In this role, you will have full autonomy over a broad technological scope, guide technical decisions, lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities, and act as a key point of reference and mentor for more junior team members.

Orchestration & GitOps: manage multi-cluster operations (Dev/QA/Prod) on Kubernetes / AKS, handling advanced troubleshooting and secret management via SOPS + age.

CI/CD Automation: design and optimize Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML, shared templates, environment promotion processes, and build queues).





Migration & Infrastructure: manage the transition and coexistence of mixed environments (legacy Linux VMs with Tomcat AKS), overseeing packaging (Docker/JIB) and application builds within the JVM ecosystem (Java 8→25, Spring Boot).

Observability & Incident Management: lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and drive end-to-end production incident management, leveraging advanced monitoring tools.

Mentoring & Leadership: serve as the team's technical reference point, promoting knowledge transfer and interfacing with clients and vendors. Kubernetes (AKS), kubectl, Helm / Helmfile, SOPS / age.

Cloud & CI/CD: Azure (AKS, ACR, basic networking, Storage), Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML).

Version Control: Git / Bitbucket (Cloud & Data Center), excellent knowledge of branching strategies and release management.

Java/JVM Ecosystem: Maven, Java (versions 8 to 25), Spring Boot, Tomcat, Docker/JIB.

Data & Streaming: Kafka / Confluent Cloud, RabbitMQ, MySQL (InnoDB Cluster), MongoDB (operations and diagnostic queries).

Networking & CDN: Akamai, Apache, Traefik (reverse proxy), mod_jk. Linux (VM administration, SSH, Bash scripting).

Observability & Security: Elastic APM, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Thanos, Splunk (or Datadog), Snyk, SonarQube, HCL AppScan. Our recruitment process has 3 stages: You can apply via LinkedIn or send your cv to [email protected]

📌 Freelance DevOps Engineer (Milano)
🏢 Bitrock
📍 Milano