Cloud Engineer (Wroclaw, Poland)

Who We Are

Founded in 2017, Unit8 is a fast-growing Swiss AI and data analytics consulting and services company dedicated to solving complex problems of traditional industries like automotive, chemical, financial services, manufacturing and pharma. We work with some of the biggest organisations in Europe to solve the challenges that directly affect their business - be it operations, finance, manufacturing or R&D. Since our foundation, we have successfully delivered more than 150 projects and have grown to 100+ talented individuals across 5 office locations.

Unit8’s mission is to drive the adoption of AI and Data Science in the non-digital industries and to help accelerate their digital transformation. Among its activities, Unit8 dedicates a part of its resources and time on projects that deeply matter to us - that includes collaboration on pro-bono and “engineering for good” causes. You can learn more about what we are passionate about at Unit8 Talks and on our website you can find more useful information about our business and recruiting process.

These are some examples of projects that we have been working on

• Building a real-time production line monitoring system for the pharmaceutical industry in order to improve the throughput of the production processes for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Technologies: AWS, EKS, CloudFormation, Docker, Python
• Building system for calculating and delivering global climate scores i.e. estimating the impact of climate change on the risk of natural disasters (i.e. floods, wildfires & droughts) for the Insurance Industry. Technologies: PySpark, Python, Proprietary Data Processing Platform
• Building a modern data science platform including a data lake for Chemical Industry. Technologies: Azure, ML Studio, Data Factory, Databricks, Spark

Unit8 is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our team in Wroclaw. You will be part of diverse project teams and will partner with other engineers and data scientists to deliver data applications and solutions.

• You have a strong experience in Cloud development and architecture on one of the following platforms: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• You are a professional engineer with good knowledge of Computer Science and at least one widely adopted programming language (for instance Python, JavaScript, or Go ).
• You have experience in system architecture and engineering with a strong focus on security best practices.
• You are passionate about your domain and you like to introduce new improvements that make sense and are pragmatic for your users.
• You are knowledgeable about automation tools and you are familiar with Continuous Integration and Delivery tools such as Azure DevOps, CircleCI or Jenkins.
• You are ready to tackle new areas and challenges i.e. building AI & Data Science stacks, setting up MLOps or scaling up Unit8’s internal tools.
• You understand the value of teamwork.
• You are outcome-focused and you have a service-oriented mindset.
• You are eligible to register as sole trader (self-employment) in Poland.

What You’ll Do

At Unit8 we build a wide range of applications for our clients in various industries, as well as internal tools, each with their own set of challenges. In general, you will:

• Design, propose and maintain Data & Cloud architectures.
• Automate various tasks to improve efficiency and shorten release time.
• Investigate security and functionality gaps in projects. Suggest and track improvements.
• Tackle new areas and challenges i.e. AI & Data Science stack.

Opportunities you can take advantage of

• High-trust working environment & merit-based decision making
• A high degree of independence and large space for growing responsibilities and shaping the young company
• Exposure to client-facing roles and real word challenges from day one

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape the expansion of one of the leading Swiss data & AI consultancies
• Compensation package including base salary, yearly bonus based on the both individual + company performance
• Above the norm flexibility regarding when and from where you work as long as both client and internal commitments are met
• Work on cutting-edge data, AI & analytics topics (e.g., Generative AI) that have real impact across industries
• Dedicated time and budget for training and pro-bono projects
• 30 paid days off
• Private health care and Multisport
• Cross offices/company-wide frequent events (off-site or online) as well as quarterly budget to spend with the team on after-work activities