In recent years, we have seen Polish companies lean hard into cloud, containers, and automation. One additional requirement for this to work is having hands-on experts to keep those pipelines running smoothly.
In the Linux Foundation’s 2024 State of Tech Talent survey, 51% of organisations worldwide said DevOps is now a top staffing priority, just behind cloud roles at 55%. Within Poland, LinkedIn data indicates that DevOps is among the top five most advertised tech jobs, ranking second only to software engineering roles.
Below is a recruiter’s cheat sheet to the skills, salaries, and mindsets that hiring managers request most often for DevOps roles. Providing both candidates and companies with insights into what’s out there.
Why DevOps Matters More Than Ever?
DevOps is a way of working together that bridges product teams, operations, and security. Elite teams that practise it deploy code 973 times more frequently than those who don’t. Studies also find they fix production incidents within hours rather than days after they occur.
This results in faster features, happier users, and less downtime. While the necessity of DevOps might not be as obvious on the surface, time and again, we’re seeing the role play out well in increasing company effectiveness.
Demand Signals in Poland
Now, onto the specific demand signals we’re seeing for the role in Poland.
- Persistent talent gap: The Polish Chamber of Information Technology still reports a national shortage of tens of thousands of IT professionals. DevOps skills sit squarely in that gap.
- Cloud migration on fast-forward: Banks, telcos, and gaming studios that once hosted on-prem are containerising workloads and want engineers who speak Docker and Kubernetes fluently.
- Security shifts left: After high-profile ransomware incidents, CISOs now insist that every CI/CD pipeline bakes in image scanning and policy checks. A Red Hat survey of 600 DevOps and security professionals found that container security incidents are now a board-level concern.
Core Skill Set – What Employers Request
| Competence | What Polish hiring managers write in job posts |
| Containers & Orchestration | Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift |
| CI/CD Pipelines | GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps |
| Infrastructure as Code | Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi |
| Cloud Platforms | AWS or Azure first, GCP is a bonus |
| Observability | Prometheus, Grafana, ELK |
| Scripting | Python and Bash still rule |
A 2025 career roadmap from SloopStash breaks the mix down into even more fine-grained criteria. 70% of a modern DevOps role is tool-driven (Docker, K8s, Terraform, Jenkins), while core programming and OS skills each sit at 15%.
Salary Snapshot
- Median remote salary: PLN 8,425 gross for juniors, rising to roughly PLN 20,000 for seniors, with some Warsaw adverts touching PLN 30,000. Salaries are all gross.
- Contract B2B rates: EUR 80–110 per hour for seasoned platform engineers on international projects, according to day-rate data we track at Verita HR.
- Global-company benchmarks: Jobicy places the average Polish DevOps engineer at USD $69k per year, with senior brackets over USD $108K.
What This Means for Employers
- Fund learning curves: Budgeting a few thousand złoty for Kubernetes or Terraform certificates is cheaper and more effective than letting gaps appear in the pipeline, slowing down deliverables and project timelines.
- Sell the pipeline, not just the pay cheque: Engineers stay when they can automate, deploy, and measure impact. A common problem is putting motivated engineers on mere babysitting duty for legacy servers.
- Leave Warsaw’s bubble: Kraków, Łódź, and the Tricity are each excellent schools for recruiting DevOps graduates each June. Hybrid or remote contracts widen that funnel, giving you a wide pool to choose from.
- Stage clear career ladders: Juniors become mids faster when they rotate through cloud, IaC, and security duties. While training can get stretched thin, juniors tend to be highly motivated and excited to learn.
What This Means for Candidates
- Learn one cloud deeply, then cross-train: Most advertisements still open with “AWS OR Azure.” Master one for greater hiring ability early on.
- Automate everything: Employers reward candidates who bring reusable Ansible roles or GitLab templates and have a clear understanding of how to automate processes (as long as it’s done properly).
- Show the numbers: Mention how many deployments per day your last team shipped or how many minutes your rollback script shaved off outage time. The more specific your meaningful performance metrics, the more you can stand out.
A Recruiter’s View – Verita HR
We spoke to Max Kabaj, HR Projects Co-ordinator and IT Headhunter at Verita HR to find out more. Max shared how at Verita HR we’ve staffed complete DevOps pods for banks and tech firms over the years – not only matching CVs to roles, but also advising clients on how to define the DevOps capabilities they truly need.
“The trends we are seeing are that every new project begins with platform engineering in mind, not tacked on later. Teams ask us for profiles that blend cloud architecture with hands-on YAML. We are then able to shortlist engineers who can explain why a pipeline failed, not just how to restart it, and this helps sell their skills as active and valuable to hiring companies.
“This growing emphasis on end-to-end understanding – from IaC design to pipeline reliability – reflects a wider shift in the Polish tech market. DevOps is no longer treated as a support role, but as a foundational part of product delivery. Hiring managers increasingly expect engineers to not only know the tools (like Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform), but also how to build scalable, reliable systems that align with business priorities.
“DevOps is a skill that is here to stay. For ambitious developers and engineers knowing how to understand the DevOps methodology is key to attaining career goals. This is true in Poland like any other market.”
As Max puts it, what sets top candidates apart today is mindset: the ability to take ownership, act on root causes, and collaborate across functions. For professionals aiming to future-proof their careers, DevOps is no longer optional – it’s strategic.
How Verita HR Can Help
Whether you need one Site Reliability Engineer tomorrow or a full platform team next quarter, Verita HR keeps an active bench of pre-screened DevOps talent across Poland’s biggest tech hubs.
Talk to our recruiters here today to close your skills gap before your next release window slips away from you.
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Polish Cloud Engineers Wanted, But Only if They Use Azure – Verita HR
