Job Description

Strength. Care. Growth.

Did you know that A1 Bulgaria is working on international projects as well?

Our wide portfolio has long past the telecom services, and we are now offering digital solutions to millions of corporate, public, and private customers.

State-of-the-art technology, the latest innovations, and extremely talented professionals in various areas help us deliver the best-in-class products, services, and customer experience.

You’ll know A1 Bulgaria is the right place for you if you are driven by:

• Opportunities to learn and build your career.
• Meaningful work in a stable and fast-paced company.
• Diversity of people, projects, and platforms.
• A supportive, fun, and inspiring place to work.

Job purpose:

The role combines hands-on engineering, automation and operational troubleshooting in our data - and AI platform.

Your daily routine would include:

• Build and maintain platform services using Python, Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform.
• Operate Kafka-related components, authentication services and supporting platform tools.
• Develop automation, APIs, operational utilities and reusable infrastructure modules.
• Maintain CI/CD and GitOps workflows across environments.
• Integrate Azure services, Key Vault, managed identities, private endpoints, storage, databases and enterprise APIs.
• Configure Kubernetes object.
• Support Kafka topics, partitions, access controls, schemas, monitoring and consumer troubleshooting.
• Diagnose failures spanning applications, Kubernetes, identity, networking, storage and cloud services.
• Produce runbooks, Terraform documentation and operational handover material.
• Handle ServiceNow incidents and requests, contribute to on-call readiness and eliminate recurring manual work.
• Support emerging AIaaS and agentic-platform workloads where platform-engineering expertise is required.

We’ll know you can make it, if you have:

• Strong practical experience with Python, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure (or any cloud) and Terraform.
• Sound knowledge of containers, networking, identity, secrets and CI/CD.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems methodically and independently.
• Clear technical communication and a strong preference for automated, reproducible solutions.

Nice to Have:

• Spark, structured streaming or production data pipelines.
• Kafka.
• Exoscale or another European sovereign-cloud platform.
• Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, SAML and enterprise IAM integration.
• Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry or similar observability tooling.
• ServiceNow and operational support processes.
• Agentic coding tools such as OpenCode, GitHub Copilot or comparable engineering assistants.

Our gratitude for the job done will be eternal, but we’ll also offer you:

• Innovative technologies and platforms to “play” with.
• Modern working environment for your comfort.
• Friendly, ambitious, and motivated teammates to support each other.
• Thousands of online and in-person learning opportunities to grow.
• Challenging assignments and career development opportunities in multinational environment.
• Attractive remuneration package.
• Flexible working schedule and opportunity for home office;
• Numerous additional goodies, including, but not limited to free A1 services, discounts, health insurance and services, sports center, childcare, team and family events, etc.

Not sure yet? See us in action in our A1 Blog.

Any questions? Contact Mariya Ivanova.

Sounds good? Apply now!

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.