DevOps Engineer

Hybrid / Prague 8 /
Hybrid
Lokation: Prague 8, HO 50 %
Languages: Fluent English and Czech

Level: Senior
Form of cooperation: Contraktor
Start date: asap
Allocation: Full-Time
Allocation length: Long term

What the team is working on:

  • R7 is multi-year project aiming to build new Risk platform, capable of performing complex backend calculations and analytics on large data sets in cloud native microservice architecture. Based on a portable, modern microservice architecture, R7 will refactor and replace existing critical Risk systems, over the coming years.
  • The team will focus on the development of new service-based functionality to serve the customers’ needs as well as the migration and harmonization of functionality out of existing systems. R7 will provide functionality for different user groups covering wide range of Risk management areas and with various complexities and criticalities of respective business processes.
  • We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our mission critical DevOps team. We utilize Ansible and Terraform Enterprise; Kustomize for templating two platforms for RedHat OpenShift and managed GKE. Our deployment strictly follows GitSecOps approach, based on pull request from GitHub Enterprise the code gets pushed using our own GitHub application, Atlantis, and ArgoCD.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and maintain cloud infrastructure for all applications within Risk department, including application observability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement best practices for continuous integration, continuous deployment, and infrastructure as code.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in DevSecOps practices, integrating security into all aspects of the DevOps lifecycle.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. 

You should possess and demonstrate the following skills and qualifications:

  • Comfortable working in Linux environments.
  • Strong proficiency in DevOps principles and practices, including containerization technologies (Docker), and monitoring/logging stack (ELK, Prometheus, etc)
  • Interest and ability to learn, collaborative working style.
  • Ability to communicate in verbal and written English.

Preferred skills/qualifications – the following skills would be a plus:

  • Expertise in Istio for service mesh deployment, configuration, and monitoring.
  • Previous experience working in the banking or financial services industry
  • Experience in monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Loki, and Mimir.
  • Knowledge of GitHub (Enterprise) and GitHub Actions is highly desirable.