Senior DevOps Engineer - Commodities IT (f/m/d)

Your area of work:

Your regular responsibilities within the product team will include defining, evolving, and maintaining the daily technical operation (monitoring, deployment, infrastructure administration) of our SaaS applications M7 Trading & M7 Auction, middleware and related systems primarily on-premise. Your long-term initiatives will focus on leading the improvement of our infrastructure architecture and automation systems with aim of improving product operability, security, compliance and reliability.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer and core product team member, you will design, 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 champion and introduce 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 to senior management and external stakeholders.

In our 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:

• Technical leadership and full stack responsibility of deployment infrastructure and applications (automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot).
• Current technology stack: On-premises setup with VMware VMs, RedHat 8/9, DevOps Toolchain: Ansible | Jenkins | HashiCorp Vault, self-developed Java/Kotlin applications, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL | Patroni | etcd, Apache, HAProxy
• Operational duties include 24/7 production support shift duty and on-call shifts distributed among the team (an average of two one-week shifts and two one-week on-call duties per month will be expected).
• Monitor infrastructure and applications metrics via monitoring/observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch) 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 from test stage up to production environment, ensuring seamless CI/CD pipelines.
• Systems administration of application hosts: upgrading, patching, and tuning, capacity and performance management.
• Facilitate & contribute to evaluation and development of initiatives in the DevOps area, including various automation and containerization.
• Counterpart for development in architectural design and advice.
• Mentor and coach for team members to foster technical growth, knowledge sharing and a positive team culture.

Your profile:

• University degree in Information Technology or equivalent OR
• 6+ years prior experience in technical operations of highly critical, 24/7 financial or enterprise environments
• Willingness to work with a classical on-prem stack, coupled with a proven track record of successfully migrating legacy systems towards containerization (considering regulatory and high-availability constraints)
• Advanced expertise in RedHat Enterprise Linux (installation, system monitoring and maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting, etc.)
• Deep experience with automation, software deployment, orchestration technologies and continuous integration & delivery (most relevant being Ansible, Jenkins, etcd, Git, GitHub)
• Strong leadership and coaching skills with the ability to take responsibility, manage incidents, and deliver results autonomously under time pressure
• Team player who actively drives knowledge sharing and task delegation, and collaboration with the team and other peers. Openly communicate and synchronize with the team, share experience, listen and discuss critically but respectfully and productively
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Would be an advantage:

• Deep technical expertise and hands-on administration of one or more of the following areas: Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Prometheus
• Strong network knowledge: Topologies, LoadBalancer, firewalls, switches, xinetd Proxies, troubleshooting e.g. telnet, ss, Wireshark
• Strong architectural understanding of infrastructures and application design (e.g., high-availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance, serverless, microservices).
• Experience with strict enterprise security requirements (certificates, TLS encryption, central identity management)
• Practical experience implementing and championing DevOps, SRE, or Agile working models within a team.
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: Java/Kotlin/Python/Go.

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
• Free Access to E-Learning Platforms, Internal Development Programs, Mentoring & Learning Budget