Staff DevOps Engineer
Bloomreach15 days ago
Remote, Slovakia or Bratislava, SlovakiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and specify sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and robust production environments.
- Lead infrastructure projects spanning multiple engineering teams from scoping through delivery.
- Operate and upgrade Kubernetes clusters without interrupting live applications.
- Automate tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work.
- Manage Google Cloud, Kubernetes, databases, and other core infrastructure components.
- Configure monitoring and alerting, validate application performance and availability, and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Write Terraform modules with multiple interconnected resources.
- Support developers, review infrastructure and application design proposals, and develop core components such as logging or authorization when needed.
- Onboard and train new team members.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes.
- Production experience with Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure, with Google Cloud preferred.
- Production experience with Python or Go sufficient to read, review, evaluate, and develop custom tooling when needed.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes configuration, cluster management, node pools, autoscaling, security contexts, network policies, roles, pod scheduling, and cluster upgrades.
- 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, and Docker in DevOps, orchestration/configuration management, or continuous integration contexts.
- Experience leading cross-team projects, writing technical designs, and coordinating engineers without direct reporting relationships.
- Experience onboarding and training team members.
- Active engagement with Kubernetes and related technologies, including participation in DevOps-related conferences.
Benefits
- Full-time work from home or from Bloomreach offices in Bratislava, Brno, or Prague, with virtual-first working and flexible hours.
- Five paid days off annually for volunteering, subject to employment type.
- Professional development workshops and an annual $1,500 professional education budget for books, courses, certifications, and other education products.
- Employee Assistance Program, Calm subscription, sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities.
- One additional DisConnect day off each quarter and extended parental leave of up to 26 calendar weeks for primary caregivers.
- Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options, a company performance bonus, and an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000, depending on applicable factors and eligibility.
- Company events and support for personal and professional development.
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.