Senior DevOps Engineer

The Infrastructure team operates and maintains Bloomreach Engagement core infrastructure built on Google Cloud with security, high availability, costs, and scalability in mind. Our vision is to identify and implement opportunities to achieve a robust, reliable, and efficient infrastructure and development platform. We strongly support DevOps culture: each team is responsible for releasing, operating, and monitoring their own applications. The role of the Infrastructure Team is to provide a strong foundation upon which all teams can build, for example, manage big infrastructure components like Kubernetes, databases, and cloud components in Google Cloud.

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; Participate in an on-call rotation as required; Independently own maintenance and project tasks from specification through to production; Support developers, review design proposals, and validate application performance and availability

Requirements

At least 3 years of production experience with Kubernetes, including operating 24x7 production environments; GCP (preferred)/AWS/Azure experience with public cloud risks and benefits, infrastructure as code, and choosing between cloud-managed and self-hosted solutions; Python/Go skills sufficient to read and understand code, review and evaluate AI-generated Python code, and develop custom tooling when needed

Nice to have

Configuration proficiency with pod/container security context, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host path, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, node taints; Resource optimization experience with requests/limits, HPAs, or VPAs; Cluster management experience including node pools, cluster features, node autoscaling, and Kubernetes version upgrades without interrupting live applications; Terraform module experience with multiple interconnected resources; Monitoring and alerting experience, on-duty experience preferred, and experience with Grafana and Prometheus; DevOps and CI/CD experience with Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, and Docker; Experience onboarding and training new team members; Participation in DevOps-related conferences; Active engagement in reading and staying up to date on Kubernetes and related technologies

Benefits

Freedom and trust with flexible working hours; Virtual-first work with several Bloomreach Hubs across three continents; Company events; 5 paid volunteering days; People Development Program and Leader Development Program; $1,500 annual professional education budget; Employee Assistance Program; Calm subscription; DisConnect days with 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; Company performance bonus; Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000; Bloomversaries work anniversary rewards