Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Bloomreach's expanding Infrastructure team as a Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer and work with a cutting-edge tech stack, including Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud. The role offers a competitive salary starting from €4,000 gross per month and the flexibility to work remotely or from a Central Europe office. You will design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and automate tools. Bloomreach provides a supportive culture, flexible working hours, and various benefits, including professional development opportunities and well-being programs. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with Kubernetes, GCP, and Python/Go, along with a strong understanding of DevOps principles and a passion for continuous learning.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of production experience with Kubernetes - understanding of what is happening behind the scenes and can operate 24x7 production
• GCP (preferred)/AWS/Azure - comfortable working with public cloud, understand the risks and benefits, familiar with infrastructure as a code principle and have ability to make design choices between using cloud managed solutions versus self hosted alternatives
• Python/Go - be a solid programmer capable of developing custom tooling

Responsibilities

• Work with other Engineering teams to design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and an efficient and robust production environment
• Automate tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work
• Monitor applications and participate in an on-call rotation as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Continuous Learning: Have a keen interest in Kubernetes and related technologies, demonstrated by active engagement in reading and staying updated
• Conference Participation: Have participated in DevOps related conferences
• Configuration Proficiency: Have hands-on experience configuring pod/container security context, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host path, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, node taints
• Resource Optimization: Have analyzed resource usage of applications hosted on a cluster and implemented or suggested changes to resource requests/limits, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPAs), or Vertical Pod Autoscalers (VPAs)
• Cluster Management: Have a deep understanding of the clusters you manage, including the types of machines used in node pools, the reasons for their selection, the enabled or disabled cluster features, the cluster version, and the node autoscaling setup. Have successfully upgraded Kubernetes cluster versions without causing interruptions to live applications hosted on the cluster
• Terraform Proficiency: Have written a Terraform module with multiple interconnected resources
• Monitoring and Alerting: Have experience setting up monitoring systems and configuring alerts. On-duty experience is preferred, along with experience with Grafana and Prometheus
• DevOps and CI/CD Experience: Have experience with DevOps, Orchestration/Configuration Management, and Continuous Integration technologies such as Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, etc
• Team Onboarding and Training: Have experience with onboarding and training new team members

Benefits

• Salary starts from €4,000 gross per month based on your experience level
• Work from home or one of our Central Europe offices on a full-time basis
• A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes
• Flexible working hours
• Work remote-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents
• Company events
• 5 paid days off to volunteer
• People Development Program -- participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company
• Resident communication coach available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges
• Managers participate in the Leader Development Program
• $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)
• Employee Assistance Program with counselors available for non-work-related challenges
• Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app
• ���DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter
• Sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities
• Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers
• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location
• Company performance bonus
• Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts
• Rewards & celebrates work anniversaries