Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

About this role

Requirements

• At least 3 years of production experience with:
• Kubernetes - we are looking for engineer that not only deployed applications to a cluster, but who also understands what is happening behind the scenes and can operate 24x7 production
• GCP (preferred)/AWS/Azure - our solution is built on top of GCP platform. Candidate should be comfortable working with public cloud, understand the risks and benefits associated with running applications in the public cloud, be familiar with infrastructure as a code principle and have ability to make design choices between using cloud managed solutions versus self hosted alternatives
• Python/Go - you should be a solid programmer capable of developing custom tooling
• How to know if you are good fit:
• The qualifications outlined below serve as a guide to determine if your skills and experience align with the requirements of this position:
• Continuous Learning: You have a keen interest in Kubernetes and related technologies, demonstrated by your active engagement in reading and staying updated about them.
• Conference Participation: You have participated in DevOps related conferences, showcasing your commitment to continuous learning and networking in the field.
• Configuration Proficiency: You have hands-on experience configuring pod/container security context, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host path, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, node taints, to name a few.
• Resource Optimization: You have analyzed resource usage of applications hosted on a cluster and implemented or suggested changes to resource requests/limits, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPAs), or Vertical Pod Autoscalers (VPAs).
• Cluster Management: You have a deep understanding of the clusters you manage, including the types of machines used in node pools, the reasons for their selection, the enabled or disabled cluster features, the cluster version, and the node autoscaling setup. You have successfully upgraded Kubernetes cluster versions without causing interruptions to live applications hosted on the cluster.
• Terraform Proficiency: You have written a Terraform module with multiple interconnected resources.
• Monitoring and Alerting: You have experience setting up monitoring systems and configuring alerts. On-duty experience is preferred, along with experience with Grafana and Prometheus.
• DevOps and CI/CD Experience: You have experience with DevOps, Orchestration/Configuration Management, and Continuous Integration technologies such as Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, etc.
• Team Onboarding and Training: You have experience with onboarding and training new team members, demonstrating your leadership skills and commitment to team growth.
• About your team:
• 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. An important role of the team is also providing support for developers, reviewing design proposals, validating the performance and availability of applications, and sometimes even developing new core application components like logging or authorization.
• Tasks and responsibilities:
• In the position of DevOps Engineer, you’d be expected to work with other Engineering teams to design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and an efficient and robust production environment. Additionally, you’ll be working on a variety of tasks and projects, including automating tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work, monitoring applications and participating in an on-call rotation as required.
• The ideal candidate will be passionate about learning new things, creative, willing to take the initiative, and able to think outside the box to solve problems strategically.