Staff DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Slovakia.

📋 Description

• Design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and resilient production environments in collaboration with Engineering teams.

• Automate tools and infrastructure to minimize manual tasks.

• Monitor applications and be part of an on-call rotation as necessary.

• Take ownership of the design and specification for infrastructure initiatives.

• Decompose infrastructure initiatives into actionable team tasks.

• Lead projects that involve multiple engineering teams.

• Operate and maintain the core infrastructure of Bloomreach Engagement on Google Cloud.

• Manage Kubernetes, databases, and various Google Cloud components.

• Provide support to developers and assess design proposals.

• Validate the performance and availability of applications.

• Develop essential application components such as logging or authorization as required.

• Maintain an understanding of and responsibility for all released changes, including those assisted by AI.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of production experience.

• Production experience with Kubernetes, including the operation of 24x7 production clusters.

• Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure; GCP is preferred.

• Understanding of the risks and benefits associated with public clouds.

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code principles.

• Capability to select between cloud-managed solutions and self-hosted alternatives.

• Proficiency in reading and comprehending Python or Go code.

• Ability to review and assess AI-generated Python code for accuracy, security, and applicability.

• Skills to develop custom tooling when necessary, with or without AI support.

• Experience transforming loosely defined problems into designs and specifications.

• Experience in writing design proposals and evaluating others’ designs.

• Proven experience leading projects across various teams.

• Experience in independently delivering maintenance or project tasks.

• Active interest in Kubernetes and related technologies.

• Participation in DevOps-related conferences.

• Hands-on experience in configuring pod/container security contexts, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host paths, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, and node taints.

• Experience in optimizing resource requests/limits, HPAs, and VPAs.

• In-depth understanding of managed Kubernetes clusters, node pools, cluster features, versions, and autoscaling configurations.

• Experience upgrading Kubernetes clusters without causing interruptions to live applications.

• Experience in writing Terraform modules with multiple interconnected resources.

• Experience in setting up monitoring systems and configuring alerts.

• On-duty experience, along with familiarity with Grafana and Prometheus, is preferred.

• Experience with DevOps, orchestration/configuration management, and CI/CD technologies, including Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, and Docker.

• Experience in onboarding and training new team members.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours.

• Virtual-first work model with several Bloomreach Hubs located across three continents.

• Company events.

• Five paid days off for volunteering.

• People Development Program that includes personal development workshops.

• Communication coach support.

• Leader Development Program with feedback, coaching, and follow-up check-ins.

• Annual professional education budget of $1,500 for books, courses, certifications, and other educational products.

• Employee Assistance Program featuring counseling services.

• Subscription to Calm sleep and meditation app.

• One additional DisConnect day off each quarter.

• Opportunities for sports, yoga, and meditation.

• Extended parental leave of up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.

• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options based on role, seniority, and location.

• Company performance bonus.

• Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000.

• Rewards for work anniversaries.