Staff DevOps Engineer
Job description
Staff DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer on Bloomreach's Infrastructure team, designing and operating the core infrastructure for Bloomreach Engagement on Google Cloud. The role involves cross-team infrastructure projects, automation, monitoring, and on-call rotation.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Slovakia, Czechia
- Pay
- CZK 1,520,000 – 1,900,000 / year
What you'll do
- Work with other Engineering teams to design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and an efficient and robust production environment
- Automate tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work
- Monitor applications and participate in an on-call rotation as required
- Own the design and specification of infrastructure initiatives, break them down into tasks the team can execute, and lead projects that span multiple engineering teams
- Manage big infrastructure components like Kubernetes, databases, and cloud components in Google Cloud
- Provide support to developers, review design proposals, validate the performance and availability of applications
- Sometimes develop new core application components such as logging or authorization
What we're looking for
- At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes - not only deploying applications to a cluster, but understanding what is happening behind the scenes and operating 24x7 production
- At least 5 years of production experience with GCP (preferred)/AWS/Azure - comfortable working with public cloud, understanding risks and benefits, familiar with infrastructure as code, able to make design choices between cloud-managed and self-hosted alternatives
- At least 5 years of production experience with Python/Go - able to read and understand code with confidence, review and evaluate AI-generated Python code for correctness, security, and fit, and develop custom tooling when needed
- Design and Specification: turn loosely defined problems into designs and specifications others can execute; write design proposals, weigh trade-offs between managed and self-hosted solutions, review the designs of others
- Cross-team Leadership: led projects spanning multiple teams, from scoping and planning through delivery, coordinating engineers who do not report to you
- Independent Delivery: take a specified maintenance or project task and drive it to completion on your own
- AI as a Tool, Not a Replacement: use AI assistants to work faster, understand and verify what the AI produced, stay in control and accountable for everything shipped
- Continuous Learning: keen interest in Kubernetes and related technologies, demonstrated by active engagement in reading and staying up to date
- Conference Participation: participated in DevOps-related conferences
- Configuration Proficiency: 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
- Resource Optimization: analyzed resource usage of applications hosted on a cluster and implemented or suggested changes to resource requests/limits, HPAs, or VPAs
- Cluster Management: deep understanding of managed clusters including node pool machine types and reasons for their selection, enabled/disabled cluster features, cluster version, node autoscaling configuration; successfully upgraded Kubernetes cluster versions without interrupting live applications
- Terraform Proficiency: written a Terraform module with multiple interconnected resources
- Monitoring and Alerting: experience setting up monitoring systems and configuring alerts
- DevOps and CI/CD Experience: experience with DevOps, Orchestration/Configuration Management, and Continuous Integration technologies, including Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, and Docker
- Team Onboarding and Training: experience onboarding and training new team members
Nice to have
- On-duty experience
- Experience with Grafana and Prometheus
Your team
Infrastructure team
Operates and maintains Bloomreach Engagement core infrastructure built on Google Cloud with security, high availability, costs, and scalability in mind. Provides a strong foundation upon which all teams can build, manages big infrastructure components like Kubernetes, databases, and cloud components in Google Cloud, supports developers, reviews design proposals, validates performance and availability of applications, and sometimes develops new core application components such as logging or autho
Benefits
- A great deal of freedom and trust; no clocking in and out, no corporate rules or long approval processes
- Flexible working hours to accommodate your working style
- Virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents
- Company events to experience the global spirit of the company
- 5 paid days off to volunteer
- People Development Program with personal development workshops run by experts from inside the company
- Resident communication coach available to help navigate work-related communications and decision-making challenges
- Leader Development Program for managers
- $1,500 professional education budget annually to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)
- Employee Assistance Program with counselors for non-work-related challenges
- Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app
- '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 granted depending on role, seniority, and location
- Company performance bonus
- Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000
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About Bloomreach
Building the world's premier agentic platform for personalization
Bloomreach is building an agentic platform for personalization, deploying AI agents across autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, all built on a single AI engine called Loomi. Businesses from retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming use Bloomreach to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty.
Mission
Revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize the entire customer journey.
Key facts
- Software / AI personalization platform
- Powers personalization for more than 1,400 global brands
- Includes American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora among its customers
- Built on a single AI engine called Loomi
- Glassdoor rating of 4.7/5
- Comparably culture score of 4.9/5
- Virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs across three continents
Partners & customers
What they value
- 5 defined values with 10 underlying key behaviors