Senior DevOps Engineer
Bloomreach15 days ago
Remote, Slovakia or Bratislava, SlovakiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and operate sustainable Kubernetes, cloud, and microservice infrastructure for production applications.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, including node pools, autoscaling, configuration, upgrades, and uninterrupted operation of live applications.
- Write Terraform modules and automate infrastructure and operational tooling to reduce manual work.
- Set up monitoring and alerting, analyze resource usage, and configure resource requests, limits, and autoscalers.
- Support engineering teams through design reviews, performance and availability validation, and infrastructure guidance.
- Participate in on-call operations and maintain high availability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Own maintenance and project tasks from specification through production while verifying AI-assisted changes.
- Onboard and train new team members.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of production experience with Kubernetes, public cloud infrastructure, and Python or Go.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes configuration and operations, including security contexts, network policies, RBAC, pod affinity, disruption budgets, priority classes, taints, and autoscaling.
- Experience upgrading Kubernetes clusters without interrupting live applications.
- Experience designing infrastructure with Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure and choosing between managed and self-hosted services.
- Experience writing Terraform modules with multiple interconnected resources.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting; on-duty experience and familiarity with Grafana and Prometheus are preferred.
- Experience with Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, orchestration/configuration management, and continuous integration technologies.
- Ability to review AI-generated Python code for correctness, security, and suitability, and develop custom tooling when needed.
- Experience onboarding and training team members.
- Active interest in Kubernetes and related technologies, including participation in DevOps conferences.
Benefits
- Full-time role with the option to work remotely or from offices in Bratislava, Brno, or Prague; Bloomreach operates virtually first with flexible working hours.
- Five paid days per year for volunteering, subject to employment type.
- Global company events and a freedom-and-trust-oriented working culture.
- People Development Program, communication coaching, and professional development workshops.
- Annual $1,500 professional education budget for books, courses, certifications, and related products.
- Employee Assistance Program, Calm subscription, sports, yoga, meditation opportunities, and quarterly additional DisConnect days.
- Extended parental leave of up to 26 calendar weeks for primary caregivers, subject to employment type.
- Restricted stock units or stock options, company performance bonus, employee referral bonus, and work-anniversary rewards are offered according to role, seniority, location, or applicable terms.
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.