Senior DevOps Engineer
Bloomreach15 days ago
Remote, Czechia or Prague, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and robust production environments with engineering teams.
- Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters and Google Cloud infrastructure for high availability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Own maintenance and project tasks independently from specification through production.
- Automate tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work and develop custom tooling when needed.
- Configure Kubernetes security contexts, network policies, roles, pod affinity, disruption budgets, priority classes, node taints, and related features.
- Analyze cluster resource usage and optimize resource requests, limits, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers, and Vertical Pod Autoscalers.
- Manage cluster node pools, versions, enabled features, and autoscaling configurations, including performing non-disruptive upgrades.
- Set up monitoring and alerting, support application performance and availability validation, and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Support developers, review infrastructure and application design proposals, and help develop core components such as logging or authorization.
- Onboard and train new team members.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of production experience with Kubernetes, including operating applications in 24x7 production environments.
- Production experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud, with familiarity with AWS or Azure, infrastructure as code, and tradeoffs between managed and self-hosted services.
- Ability to read, understand, review, and evaluate Python or Go code, including AI-generated code, for correctness, security, and suitability.
- Hands-on experience configuring Kubernetes security contexts, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host paths, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, and node taints.
- Experience analyzing Kubernetes resource usage and applying resource requests and limits, HPAs, or VPAs.
- Deep understanding of managed clusters, node pools, cluster features, versions, and node autoscaling, including successful upgrades without interrupting live applications.
- Experience writing Terraform modules with multiple interconnected resources.
- Experience setting up monitoring and alerting; on-duty experience, Grafana, and Prometheus experience are preferred.
- Experience with Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, DevOps, orchestration or configuration management, and continuous integration technologies.
- Experience onboarding and training team members.
- Evidence of continuous learning in Kubernetes and related technologies, including participation in DevOps-related conferences.
- Ability to independently deliver tasks, take initiative, solve problems strategically, and remain accountable for work produced with AI assistance.
Benefits
- Full-time work-from-home or office options in Bratislava, Brno, or Prague, with virtual-first working and flexible hours.
- Freedom, trust, and limited approval processes focused on results and responsibility.
- Global company events and opportunities to participate in volunteering activities.
- Personal development workshops, competency maps, communication coaching, and leadership development programs.
- Annual professional education support for books, courses, certifications, and other learning products.
- Employee Assistance Program, Calm subscription, sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities.
- Quarterly additional DisConnect days and extended parental leave for primary caregivers.
- Restricted stock units or stock options depending on role, seniority, and location, plus a company performance bonus.
- Employee referral bonus and work-anniversary recognition.
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.