DevOps Engineer

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-premise. 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.

Your responsibilities:

Full stack responsibility on one 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.
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 metrics-based monitoring systems.
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.

Your profile:

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 is 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 for working in a multi-cultural and international environment

Additionally desired skills:

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).