DevOps Engineer - Freelance
Pubblicato il 05-08-2026 - Bitrock in Milano
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.
We thrive on overcoming challenges to help our clients reach their goals, by supporting them in the following areas: 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.
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Who we are looking for
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Security & Quality Gates: ensure code and container security by supervising policies and vulnerability remediation (Snyk, SonarQube, AppScan).
- Mentoring & Leadership: serve as the team's technical reference point, promoting knowledge transfer and interfacing with clients and vendors.
Requirements:
- Containers & GitOps: 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.
- OS & Scripting: Linux (VM administration, SSH, Bash scripting). xlwpduy
- Observability & Security: Elastic APM, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Thanos, Splunk (or Datadog), Snyk, SonarQube, HCL AppScan.
Recruitment process:
Our recruitment process has 3 stages:
- First discovery short interview with our HR team
- Technical interview with our Team Leaders
- Final interview with our Client
How to apply:
You can apply via LinkedIn or send your cv to