Staff DevOps Engineer
Bloomreach15 days ago
Remote, Czechia or Prague, CzechiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and specify infrastructure initiatives, break them into executable tasks, and lead projects across multiple engineering teams.
- Operate and upgrade Kubernetes clusters and production infrastructure without interrupting live applications.
- Design and maintain Google Cloud, self-hosted database, messaging, observability, and other core infrastructure components.
- Automate tools and infrastructure, reduce manual work, and develop custom tooling when needed.
- Configure monitoring and alerting, validate application performance and availability, and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Analyze and optimize application resource usage through requests, limits, HPAs, and VPAs.
- Review design proposals, weigh managed versus self-hosted solutions, and support developers across engineering teams.
- Onboard and train new team members and provide technical leadership without necessarily having direct reports.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, public cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, and Python or Go.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes configuration, security contexts, network policies, roles and bindings, affinity, disruption budgets, priority classes, taints, autoscaling, and cluster upgrades.
- Experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure, including selecting between cloud-managed and self-hosted solutions.
- Experience writing Terraform modules with multiple interconnected resources.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting; Grafana, Prometheus, and on-duty experience are preferred.
- Experience with Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, orchestration or configuration management, and continuous integration technologies.
- Ability to turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into designs and specifications and lead delivery across teams.
- Experience analyzing resource usage and implementing or recommending requests, limits, HPAs, or VPAs.
- Experience onboarding and training team members and participating in DevOps-related conferences.
- Ability to review AI-generated Python code for correctness, security, and suitability while remaining accountable for shipped changes.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from home or offices in Bratislava, Brno, or Prague, with flexible working hours and full-time employment.
- Freedom, trust, virtual-first collaboration, company events, and paid volunteering leave.
- Professional development workshops, communication coaching, and an annual professional education budget.
- Employee Assistance Program, Calm subscription, quarterly additional DisConnect days, sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities.
- Extended parental leave and eligibility for equity, performance bonuses, referral bonuses, and work-anniversary rewards.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureDockerElasticsearchGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudGrafanaInfluxDBKubernetesMongoDBPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About Bloomreach
Bloomreach builds an AI-driven personalization platform for e‑commerce, combining customer and product data to power marketing automation, on-site search/merchandising, and headless content. Delivered as SaaS with APIs, its products (Engagement, Discovery, and Content) are used by more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is privately held.