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. The team's vision is to identify and implement opportunities to achieve a robust, reliable, and efficient infrastructure and development platform. The team strongly supports DevOps culture: each team is responsible for releasing, operating, and monitoring their own applications. The role includes managing big infrastructure components such as Kubernetes, databases, and cloud components in Google Cloud, and providing support to developers.

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; 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 performance and availability of applications

Requirements

At least 3 years of production experience with Kubernetes, including understanding what happens behind the scenes and operating 24x7 production; Google Cloud Platform (preferred), AWS or Azure, including familiarity with public cloud risks and benefits, infrastructure as code, and choosing between cloud-managed and self-hosted solutions; Python/Go, including reading and understanding code, reviewing and evaluating AI-generated Python code, and developing custom tooling when needed

Nice to have

Experience with Terraform modules with multiple interconnected resources; experience setting up monitoring systems and configuring alerts; on-duty experience; experience with Grafana and Prometheus; experience with DevOps, Orchestration/Configuration Management and CI/CD technologies such as Terraform, GitLab, Ansible and Docker; experience configuring pod/container security context, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host path, pod disruption budgets, priority classes and node taints; experience with resource requests/limits, HPAs or VPAs; experience managing cluster versions, node pools and autoscaling, including Kubernetes upgrades without interrupting live applications; experience onboarding and training team members; participation in DevOps-related conferences; keen interest in Kubernetes and related technologies

Benefits

Freedom and trust with flexible working hours; People Development Program and Leader Development Program; $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; work anniversary rewards; 5 paid volunteering days