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.

Responsibilities

Work with other Engineering teams to design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions and an efficient, robust production environment; Work on a variety of tasks and projects, including automating tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work; Monitor applications and participate in an on-call rotation as required; Independently own maintenance and project tasks from specification through to production; Operate and maintain Bloomreach Engagement core infrastructure built on Google Cloud; Provide support to developers, review design proposals, and validate performance and availability of applications; Manage infrastructure components such as Kubernetes, databases and cloud components in Google Cloud

Requirements

At least 3 years of production experience with Kubernetes, including operating 24x7 production environments; At least 3 years of production experience with GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure, including familiarity with infrastructure as code and choosing between cloud-managed and self-hosted solutions; At least 3 years of production experience with Python or Go, including reading and reviewing code and reviewing AI-generated Python code; Ability to develop custom tooling when needed

Nice to have

Independent delivery of maintenance or project tasks; Using AI as a tool while understanding and verifying its output; Continuous learning and interest in Kubernetes and related technologies; Participation in DevOps-related conferences; Hands-on configuration of pod/container security context, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host path, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, node taints; Resource optimization including requests/limits, HPAs or VPAs; Cluster management including node pools, cluster versions and node autoscaling; Kubernetes cluster upgrades without interrupting live applications; Writing a Terraform module with multiple interconnected resources; Monitoring and alerting experience, with Grafana and Prometheus preferred; On-duty experience preferred; DevOps and CI/CD experience with Terraform, GitLab, Ansible and Docker; Experience onboarding and training new team members

Benefits

A great deal of freedom and trust; Flexible working hours; Virtual-first work with several Bloomreach Hubs across three continents; Company events; 5 paid days off for volunteering; People Development Program; Resident communication coach; Leader Development Program for managers; $1,500 annual professional education budget; Employee Assistance Program; Subscription to Calm; One additional 'DisConnect' 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 celebrations