DevOps Engineer Professional for Cloud Application Operation

Purpose

DevOps Engineer Professional is responsible for entire lifecycle of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines and Infrastructure as Code approaches. Takes account and defines automated configuration management, release management, build, test and deployment activities. Provides prototypes and concepts for further automation of assigned technology.

The Cloud Application Operation Team is a dynamic and skilled group responsible for the efficient and reliable operation of cloud-native applications within our organization. Leveraging cutting-edge cloud technologies this team plays pivotal role in ensuring the availability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-based applications.

Being a Senior DevOps Engineer within this team entails deployment, monitoring and maintenance of cloud-native applications by implementing best practices. With Kubernetes as a core technology used, managing, and optimizing Kubernetes clusters for application deployment and scaling is one of the key responsibilities.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Design, develop, test and implement infrastructure for CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage source code, configuration management, release management, build and deployment activities.
• Setup and manage integration with partner applications.
• Conduct of performance analyses and tuning as well as error analyses and troubleshooting.
• Consult and implement new innovative technologies to satisfy innovation strategy.
• Create concepts for further automation of services, processes and/or operating models.
• Directly support the project teams in the development, quality assurance accompanying development as well as planning and implementation of product releases.
• Continuously optimize the development and system infrastructure.
• Provide consulting to project teams on areas of expertise also Prototypes/Proof of Concept solutions.
• Research and develop in assigned technology, determines business requirements, propose changes and prepare implementation plans.

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• have Master’s degree in Information technologies
• have 5 years experience (ICT System)
• have skills mentioned below

IT Technical Skills

• Scripting (Bash, Python) - Expert
• Linux Operating System - Expert
• Docker - Expert
• Kubernetes / OpenShift - Advanced
• Git - Expert
• Jenkins / GitLab - Advanced
• Maven / Gradle - Intermediate
• Ansible / Terraform / Puppet - Advanced
• ELK / Prometheus / Icinga / Jaeger / Grafana - Advanced
• Networking - Expert
• Security - Advanced
• Experience in cloud environment / cloud technologies (Azure or AWS or GCP or comparable Private Cloud)
• Experience with databases in container deployments (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis or others)
• Experiecne with other open source, cloud native technologies/concepts such as (Secret Management, Container Repositories, Ingress/Egress, Service Mesh)
• Experience with proxy (NGINX)
• Experience automation CI/CD and GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux)
• Knowledge of infrastructure capabilities (networking, firewalls, proxies, certificates, webhooks)

Soft skills

• Customer-oriented thinking and handling (service)
• Ability to communicate and work under pressure
• good understanding of concepts and principals in cloud environments
• Logical reasoning and pro active solution finding on a technical level
• independent and teamwork
• proactivity and proactive solution finding

Other Skills

• Programming experience in GO, Python, Java or other programming languages
• CKA/ CKAD certification
• Good knowledge about ServiceNow
• Good knowledge in ITIL
• Agile Methodology
• Scrum
• SAFe

Languages

• English - Upper intermediate (B2)
• German- advantage (B2)
• Hungarian- advantage (B2)

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 3800€ /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.