Open position at Rossum
SRE/ DevOps Engineer
- Work schedule
- Full-time
- Address
- Křižíkova 34 Prague 8 180 00
As part of our team, you'll play a crucial role in this journey by engineering robust infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring seamless operations.
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Role Responsibilities:
Platform Management
- Maintain Core Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain the core Rossum platform infrastructure, primarily on Kubernetes and AWS, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Own the Platform: Take full ownership of the platform where all services run, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
Application Deployment
- Manage and automate the deployment of applications developed by the team, ensuring seamless and error-free releases using CI/CD pipelines.
Monitoring and Support
- Application Monitoring: Implement and maintain monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) for applications created by developers, ensuring performance and reliability.
- Provide necessary support to developers, helping them overcome roadblocks and ensuring their components run smoothly.
Standardization and Best Practices
- Develop and enforce standardized procedures for application delivery to production, ensuring consistency and quality across deployments.
- Guide Development Teams: Create and maintain best practices for development and deployment processes, ensuring that developers adhere to these standards.
- Evaluate New Technologies: Continuously seek, test, and implement new infrastructure technologies to improve the platform's scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Iterative Development: Be open to rewriting and improving systems as needed to keep up with growth and evolving requirements.
Collaboration and Meetings:
- Meet with the team in Prague at least every two weeks to collaborate, share updates, and align on goals and tasks.
Problem Solving and Adaptability
- Be accustomed to working in high-pressure situations, seeking innovative solutions to unique challenges and not relying on standard templates.
Petr Baudiš
Founder/CTO
Ondřej Matějka
Frontend Developer
Our Tech Stack
- All our services are deployed in Kubernetes on AWS.
- Our deployments and releases are based on GitOps.
- We use Terraform to write infrastructure as code and Flux and Kyverno automate kubernetes changes
- We monitor our infrastructure with Prometheus and Grafana.
- We use RabbitMQ as communication middleware.
- We use PostgreSQL for our primary databases.
- Developers use mostly Python, with TypeScript on the frontend.
- Most of our apps are microservices or getting there.
- Our product teams run and operate their apps, while SRE team manages the shared infrastructure.
About you
We are all geeks and hackers who like to engineer beautiful systems, all the way to Rossum’s CEO. You will fit right in if you:
- Are accustomed working in volatile environments (one day stable system could need a rework the next day)
- Can support, guide and actively help your teammates and other engineering teams to overcome their roadblocks
- Seek, test and push new infrastructure technologies.
- You like clean design, but you can also balance time vs solution perfection based on situation
- Are honest and bullshit-free. You base your opinions on data, but don’t cling to it in the face of good arguments.
- Are a professionally proficient English speaker.
- You like spending some time with your colleagues after work (for example on climbing wall).
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What we offer
We are building a hyper-growth SaaS startup following the best Silicon Valley practices in Prague.
- Employee Stock Option Plan designed as the fairest in Prague
- Enjoyable working environment in very diverse team (27+ nationalities)
- High end laptop & other necessary tech
- 5 weeks of vacation and home office setup, 5 sick day / personal time off, Extra two weeks for paternity leave
- Flexible working hours, hybrid regime of work
- Snacks, coffee & tea in the Prague office
- English & Czech language lessons on all levels
- Multisport card to be used at any of 2 700 places in Czechia
- Referral program