Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Prague, Czechia 

Area of Work

Join a technology team responsible for highly available financial risk and market infrastructure systems. The environment supports business-critical platforms where resilience, security, scalability and continuous availability are essential.

The Role

You will maintain, operate and continuously improve an established Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes/OpenShift environment, with a particular focus on GitOps, automation, reliability and infrastructure as code.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and optimise secure, resilient and scalable infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Develop and standardise GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and CI/CD automation through GitHub Actions.
• Manage Kubernetes/GKE environments and support deployments to production OpenShift clusters.
• Build and maintain reusable infrastructure and configuration using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Support highly available, fault-tolerant environments with disaster recovery and zero-downtime requirements.
• Support monitoring, logging and tracing using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and GCP Cloud Operations.
• Work closely with developers, platform engineers, architects and security teams to improve platform reliability and delivery.

Key Skills & Experience

• Extensive production experience with Google Cloud Platform, including GKE, IAM, VPC, Compute Engine and Secret Manager.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, ideally GKE, alongside OpenShift, Helm and Kustomize.
• Experience implementing ArgoCD/GitOps and building CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.
• Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Linux systems engineering and automation/scripting using Python, Bash or Go.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, low-latency, high-availability and zero-downtime systems.
• Understanding and practical adoption of modern AI/GenAI technologies.

Desirable

• Relevant GCP certifications, such as Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• Istio / Service Mesh and zero-trust architecture experience.
• Experience with Grafana Cloud or comparable observability platforms.
• Previous experience within financial services, trading, clearing or risk management technology.