Senior Devops Engineer

Hybrid

Lokation: Prague 8, HO 50 %

Languages: English B2 and Czech

Level: Senior

Form of cooperation: Contraktor

Start date: asap

Allocation: Full-Time

Allocation length: Long term

• For our Section "Energy IT", we are looking for a dedicated DevOps Engineer to contribute to our unit called M7 XBID & Capacity IT Operations. Our main product, XBID, is the European platform that allows continuous cross-border intraday electricity trading around the clock. It supports the integration of renewable energy and enhances market efficiency across Europe. 

• Your regular responsibilities within the Energy IT product team will include the implementation of our new software architecture, the development of the necessary automation solutions and as subject to product needs the contribution to our daily technical operations such as monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure administration for our SaaS application, middleware, and related systems both on cloud and on-premises. Your long-term initiatives will focus on improving our infrastructure architecture and automation systems to enhance product operability and reliability.
• As a DevOps evangelist and core product team member, you will automate and enhance processes and procedures using state-of-the-art tools, ensuring stable and consistent production environments. You will be encouraged to propose new methods for operations, demonstrating technological advancements and their benefits to our product. You will act as a key operations stakeholder, representing the needs of your product's operability, sustainability, and performance.
• In our Energy product team, we strive to maintain a mentality of continuous improvement with technology-driven individuals who see themselves as key participants in the decision-making process, reshaping and improving the future of our product.

• Full stack responsibility on two of our main energy trading products (automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot) but with strong focus on the implementation of our new end-to-end architectural solution based on event streaming.
• Liaise within our product agnostic teams in the organization to ensure efficient and seamless interdepartmental cooperation at all levels.
• Design and implement high quality automated solutions for business-critical tasks.
• 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 metric-based monitoring systems. Internal
• Contribute to evaluation and development of initiatives in the DevOps area, including various automation/containerization/cloud migration projects.
• Assist our Ops team members on systems administration of Application hosts: upgrading, patching and tuning, capacity and performance management.
• Support on-call rotations, when necessary, subject to remuneration.

• University degree in Information Technology or equivalent OR:
• 5+ years' prior experience technical operations of high criticality environments.
• Expertise in RedHat Enterprise Linux (installation, system monitoring and maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting, etc.); RHCSA or RHCE certifications are a strong plus.
• Experience with automation, software deployment and orchestration technologies (most relevant being: Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etcd, Apache, Apache Tomcat, Git, GitHub).
• Experience with testing IaaC solutions (preferably Ansible Molecule, Test Kitchen or any other test framework).
• Be able to take responsibility and deliver results autonomously, sometimes under time pressure.
• Technical documentation skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (B2 or higher)
• Good team spirit and accountable working in a multi-cultural and international environment 

• Good knowledge of one or more of the following areas: GCP, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Open Search, HaProxy
• Understanding and/or experience with DevOps, SRE, Agile working models
• Experience with one or more of the following languages Python/Go/Java
• Understanding of Serverless, Microservices architecture.
• Understanding and/or experience with GitOps processes.
• Experience in continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis).

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