Senior DevOps Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

• Focus: Cloud-native platform for data science and ML/AI workloads on GCP

Description

Design, maintain, and improve cloud-native infrastructure supporting data science workloads, including time-series forecasting and generative AI applications. Build a reliable, secure, and observable platform on GCP using Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and automated CI/CD pipelines with strong emphasis on monitoring and autoscaling. Collaborate with multiple development teams to deploy and operate production services.

Responsibilities

• Work in a distributed DevOps team using agile practices

• Design and operate core infrastructure on GCP for Python-based ML/AI workloads

• Maintain and improve Kubernetes environments with Helm and ArgoCD

• Develop and review Terraform modules and cloud configurations

• Manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines across applications, infrastructure, and ML projects

• Implement and optimize autoscaling strategies for workloads and clusters

• Ensure robust observability across monitoring, logging, and tracing (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo)

• Troubleshoot issues across cloud, container, networking, and application layers

• Improve platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience

• Educate developers and data scientists on best practices and relevant parts of the stack

Requirements

• Fluent English; German is a plus

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in DevOps or related roles

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

• Strong expertise with a major cloud provider (GCP preferred)

• Extensive experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts, and container-based production systems

• Understanding of basic security concepts and common vulnerability mitigation

• Hands-on proficiency with Terraform and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD

• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally GitLab CI)

• Proficiency in Unix/Linux administration, shell scripting, and practical networking fundamentals

• Experience with monitoring and observability solutions (Grafana stack; ELK also relevant)

• Familiarity with autoscaling concepts (HPA/VPA, cluster autoscaler)

• Relational and document database experience (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) is a plus

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation is a plus

Benefits

• Annual financial bonus

• Extra week of holiday (25 days/year), up to 5 My days, and 1 day off for volunteering

• Additional paid time offs (married/registered partnership, parents on first day of school, extended paternity leave, and time-offs related to foreign state office matters)

• Flexible working hours and possibility to work remotely

• Pension plan contribution

• Office refreshments (water, coffee, tea, milk, fruits)

• Company shares

• Alza discounts

• Company mobile phone and laptop

• Meal vouchers (160 CZK per working day)

• Cafeteria Plan benefits, Multisport Card, Makro Card

• Family program with T-Mobile (discounts for employees’ family members and friends)

• Training and qualification opportunities (internal learning HUB)

• Personal development opportunities (career path, job rotation, Bring your own Project)

• Participation in activities supporting charity organizations (flea markets, volunteering days, food collections)

• Relocation package for candidates coming from abroad

• Wellness activities (massage chair, PlayStation 5, etc.)

• Team events (brunches, Health Day, summer and holiday parties)