DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Senior DevOps Engineer in Prague! This full-time, long-term contract position requires a hybrid work model (50% in-office). You will be a full-stack engineer responsible for one of our main energy trading products, focusing on a new end-to-end architectural solution. Responsibilities include automation, deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting, along with collaboration across teams. You'll design and implement automated solutions, monitor infrastructure, and contribute to DevOps initiatives. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in Linux administration, automation technologies, and testing, along with strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• University degree in Information Technology or equivalent
• 5+ years’ prior experience technical operations of high criticality environments
• Expertise in RedHat Enterprise Linux (installation, system monitoring and maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting, etc.)
• Experience with automation, software deployment and orchestration technologies (most relevant being: Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etcd, Apache, Apache Tomcat, Git, GitHub)
• Experience with testing IaaC solutions (preferably Ansible Molecule, Test Kitchen or any other test framework)
• Be able to take responsibility and deliver results autonomously, sometimes under time pressure
• Technical documentation skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (B2 or higher)
• Good team spirit and accountable for working in a multi-cultural and international environment

Responsibilities

• Take full stack responsibility on one of our main energy trading products (automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot) but with strong focus on the implementation of our new end-to-end architectural solution
• Liaise within our product agnostic teams in the organization to ensure efficient and seamless interdepartmental cooperation at all levels
• Design and implement high quality automated solutions for business-critical tasks
• Monitor infrastructure and applications metrics via monitoring/observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch/Kibana, etc.) to ensure performance/capacity management, etc. Maintain and extend implementation of metrics-based monitoring systems
• Contribute to evaluation and development of initiatives in the DevOps area, including various automation/containerization/cloud migration projects
• Assist our Ops team members on systems administration of Application hosts: upgrading, patching and tuning, capacity and performance management

Preferred Qualifications

• Good knowledge of one or more of the following areas: GCP, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Open Search, HaProxy
• Understanding and/or experience with DevOps, SRE, Agile working models
• Experience with one or more of the following languages Python/Go/Java
• Understanding of Serverless, Microservices architecture
• Understanding and/or experience with GitOps processes
• Experience in continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis)