Staff DevOps Engineer

The Infrastructure team operates and maintains Bloomreach Engagement core infrastructure built on Google Cloud, with a focus on security, high availability, costs and scalability. The team manages core infrastructure components such as Kubernetes, databases and cloud components, supports developers, and sometimes develops new core application components such as logging or authorization. The Staff DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer will work with other Engineering teams on infrastructure design, automation, monitoring and on-call rotation, and will own the design and specification of infrastructure initiatives.

Responsibilities

Work with other Engineering teams to design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions and an efficient, robust production environment; Automate tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work; Monitor applications and participate in an on-call rotation as required; Own the design and specification of infrastructure initiatives and break them down into executable tasks; Lead projects spanning multiple engineering teams; Support developers, review design proposals and validate application performance and availability

Requirements

At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, including operating 24x7 production environments; GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure, including infrastructure as code and choosing between cloud-managed and self-hosted solutions; Python/Go, including reading, reviewing and evaluating code, and developing custom tooling

Nice to have

Experience with Grafana and Prometheus; On-duty experience; Experience with DevOps, Orchestration/Configuration Management and Continuous Integration technologies such as Terraform, GitLab, Ansible and Docker; Hands-on experience configuring pod/container security context, network policies, RBAC, pod affinity, pod disruption budgets, priority classes and node taints; Experience optimizing resources with requests/limits, HPAs or VPAs; Experience upgrading Kubernetes cluster versions without interrupting live applications; Experience writing a Terraform module with multiple interconnected resources; Experience onboarding and training new team members; Participation in DevOps conferences; Ability to turn loosely defined problems into designs and specifications; Experience leading cross-team projects

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; Leader Development Program for managers; $1,500 annual professional education budget; Employee Assistance Program; Calm subscription; DisConnect days (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 depending on role, seniority and location; Company performance bonus; Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000; Bloomversaries work anniversary rewards