DevOps Engineer; Junior – Bologna, Italy

Position: DevOps Engineer (Junior) – Bologna, Italy
Decision Brain develops custom decision‑support applications for various clients. While each solution is unique, they share common architectural traits:

Web-based applications with a  microservice architecture

Deployment on various  Kubernetes environments

Built using  DB Gene , our proprietary platform that we use to accelerate the development of decision‑support applications

Built and packaged using a  Continuous Integration  toolchain

Your team is in charge of deploying our applications to Kubernetes environments, monitoring them, investigating issues, qualifying them, and implementing a fix if the issue is within your scope. It works in close collaboration both with the teams responsible for project development and with the team responsible for the IT infrastructure. As a client‑facing team, your mission is to ensure that we respect our SLAs and, beyond that, to contribute actively to customer success.

Role
As a  Dev Ops Engineer , you will play a crucial role in the company’s ability to deliver its software projects. Furthermore, the recent progress in AI tools opens the door to ubiquitous automation of processes, which in turn relies heavily on Dev Ops tooling.

Our Dev Ops toolchain includes the following, where alternatives are either currently or potentially investigated for almost all elements:

Build scripts that rely on  Gradle  (currently at version
9), with a significant library of plugins developed in-house

Continuous integration pipelines running on self-hosted  Gitlab  workers

Artefacts in several formats (PyPi, Maven2, NPM, Docker, etc.) stored in  Nexus  repositories

Projects deployed to Kubernetes using  Helm  charts

Your mission will consist in enhancing the above toolchain both to make it more robust, for example by investigating emerging technologies and products; and to extend its scope to the needs of the company, from software delivery to security, and more generally the automation of processes.

Key Responsibilities
As mentioned above, your role is connected to all technical teams in the company. With this in mind, and under the supervision of the Lead Engineer of the team, you will be responsible for:

Maintaining the CI tool chain of the projects that we develop for our customers

Evolving this CI to incorporate specificities of project and evolutions brought by the Platform

Working with the Platform team on their specific CI tool chain, gradually taking the ownership of this CI

Evolving all CI tool chains to incorporate new company-wide evolutions around security, deployments, and more generally automations

When relevant, propose options for, and implement upstream or downstream components, such as reorganization of Nexus servers, or an NVD cache

Your daily tasks will include:

Providing L2 internal support on CI problems

Specifying, designing, planning, and implementing components of the software production, validation, and release processes of the company

Participate in design sessions with members of your team and of other teams

Investigate new technologies and evolutions of our Dev Ops ecosystem

Required

Skills & Qualifications
Education & Experience

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

Expected work experience: 1-3 years.

Technical Skills

Knowledge of Docker and familiarity with Kubernetes :
Deployment management, Helm charts, command-line usage (kubectl).

Experience with build tools  such as Gradle.

Experience with versioning  (Git) and  CI tools  such as Git Lab, Git Hub, Bit Bucket, etc.

A plus : familiarity with Nexus, Jira, Confluence, or similar tools.

Some experience with coding agents  such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar is appreciated, though a demonstrated ability to work without them is required.

Personal Skills

Problem‑solving mindset :
Ability to troubleshoot issues methodically and document solutions.

Open‑minded and curious :
Ability to understand the expectations and workflows of colleagues.

Organized and resourceful :
Strong investigative and documentation skills.

Language Requirements

English (Proficient, written & spoken)

French and/or Italian is a plus

Working Conditions

Contract type:  Permanent

Work schedule:

Full-…