DevOps Engineer - Energy IT (f/m/d)

Your area of work:

Your regular responsibilities within the Energy IT product team will include the daily technical operation (monitoring, deployment, infrastructure administration) of our SaaS applications, middleware and related systems both on-premises and partly in cloud. Your long-term initiatives will focus on the improvement of our infrastructure architecture and automation systems with aim to improve product operability and reliability.

As a DevOps Engineer and core product team member, you will automate and enhance process and procedures within this field of responsibility using state-of-the-art instrumentation thereby ensuring stable and consistent production environments. You will be encouraged to propose new methods for operations demonstrating new technological advancements and their benefits to our products. You will be a key operations stakeholder, representing the needs of your product’s operability, sustainability, and performance.

In our Energy product team, we strive to keep up a mentality of continuous improvement with technology-driven people that see themselves as a key part of the decision-making process – reshaping and improving the future of our products.

Your responsibilities:

• Full stack responsibility of Energy infrastructure and applications (automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot)
• Monitor infrastructure and applications metrics via monitoring/observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch/Kibana, etc.) to ensure performance/capacity management, etc. Maintain and extend implementation of metrics-based monitoring systems
• Deployment and support of internally developed applications as well as third party software within the production environment
• Systems administration of Application hosts: upgrading, patching, and tuning, capacity and performance management
• Operational duties include production support shift duty and on-call shifts distributed among the team (and average of one one-week shift and one one-week on-call duty per month might be expected)
• Contribute to evaluation and development of initiatives in the DevOps area, including various automation/containerization/cloud migration projects

Your profile:

• University degree in Information Technology or equivalent OR
• 3+ years’ prior experience technical operations of high criticality environments
• Expertise in RedHat Enterprise Linux (installation, system monitoring and maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting, etc.)
• Experience with automation, software deployment and orchestration technologies (most relevant being: Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etcd, Git, GitHub)
• Experience with Kafka is a huge plus
• Be able to take responsibility and deliver results autonomously, sometimes under time pressure
• Proficiency in written and spoken English

Would be an advantage:

• Good knowledge of one or more of the following areas: Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Open Search, Kubernetes, GCP
• Architectural understanding of infrastructures incl. network topologies
• Experience with security requirements (certificates, TLS encryption, central identity management)
• Understanding and/or experience with DevOps, SRE, Agile working models
• Experience with one or more of the following languages Java/Kotlin/Python/Go
• Understanding of Serverless, Microservices architecture
• Experience in continuous integration & delivery (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Travis)

You can look forward to our benefit package:

• Hybrid Work and Flexible working hours
• Work from abroad - 12 days of remote work from EU countries per year
• Group Share Plan - discount on company shares
• Pension fund contribution - 3% of your gross salary (5% after 5 years with us)
• Health & Wellbeing - fully covered Multisport card, life & accident insurance, sick days and 100% salary contribution during sick leave (up to 56 days)
• 25 vacation days
• Mobility - fully covered public transport in Prague & free parking
• Flexible Benefit Account (Pluxee) - 1200 per month
• Personal Development - annual budget of €690 ... and way more!