Company Description
Sopra Steria is one of the largest players in the tech industry in Europe, known for its consulting, digital services and software development. The Polish branch, as the Global Delivery Center, operates in Katowice since 2007 and has been growing ever since. Within the Digital Platform Services and Application Services departments, the teams specialize in areas such as cloud, operating systems, virtualization, databases, software development, data engineering, and more.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the reference architecture for the application and middleware layer, covering PHP-FPM, Apache Tomcat, and Apache HTTP Server
- Define and document standards for multi-application deployment across all supported runtimes
- Lead the technical design of containerization for Kubernetes, including image standards and runtime configuration management
- Author Architectural Decision Records for application-layer technology decisions
- Define the integration approach for application-layer services with platform tooling
- Assist with designing future private cloud offerings and defining sovereign cloud requirements
- Define observability requirements for application-layer services
- Collaborate with the Solution Architecture team and Product Office to translate customer requirements
- Evaluate emerging middleware technologies and provide adoption recommendations
- Provide guidance and mentorship to other architects and DevOps squads
Requirements
- Strong expertise in designing container-native architectures within Kubernetes environments
- Strong knowledge of Java application servers (Apache Tomcat) including deployment architecture, JVM tuning, and multi-application hosting
- Experience with PHP runtime environments including configuration and performance tuning
- Proficiency with Apache HTTP Server and Nginx as reverse proxies and application front-ends
- Programming background and ability to understand application runtime behaviour
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tooling
- Familiarity with API gateway and integration platforms
- Familiarity with observability principles and tools
- Ability to produce clear architecture documentation
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in a Cloud, Kubernetes or Application Architecture role
- Demonstrated experience designing application-layer architectures in enterprise or large-scale managed hosting environments
- Experience working within a formal architecture governance model
Benefits
- Luxmed, Medicover Sport, Worksmile, educational platforms, languages learning platform, referral bonus, copyrights, life insurance, workation
- Certifications (paid by the company), conferences, Tech Lunches, possibility to join our Communities