DevOps Engineer for R&D department

Job offer

We seek a creative engineer for a small DevOps team supporting software developers in industrial automation products R&D department. The team is based in Prague. We are looking for a new colleague with experience in or an interest in software development, the automation of all processes, or ideally someone who is already familiar with the named DevOps culture.

The DevOps team itself, and all the project development teams they support, follows Agile development principles. You will collaborate directly on sophisticated software and firmware projects alongside skilled development teams. You will grow your career within the DevOps team in the R&D software development department by solving challenging problems using modern tools and practices.

You will report to the Prague manager and function in a hybrid model of three days in the office and two days from home.

Main responsibilities

• Collaborate with R&D teams to utilize and apply DevOps tools and methodologies. Promote continuous improvement and collaboration between development and operations to optimize workflows and accelerate software delivery. Join sprint planning and retrospectives to embed DevOps best practices in Agile.
• Design and develop new tools, scripts, setups, or applications for continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and continuous testing (CT), and other processes automation, including quality processes.
• Provide guidance and technical support to developers and testers in setting up and using shared DevOps infrastructure, customizing solutions to meet project specific needs.
• Support development teams by taking on common tasks required across all teams and projects, ensuring engineers can focus on their expertise rather than DevOps solutions. This includes for example, setting up automated reporting, documentation generation, static code analysis tools, and setting up and commissioning automation tools and platforms.
• Alternatively, someone from devops may help with hardware and testbeds stands build and maintenance, ensuring teams can build code, run tests, and release with the right infrastructure in place.
• Advocate for and share successful DevOps practices across multiple projects and teams, driving collaboration and efficiency throughout the department.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in informatics or engineering, or equivalent knowledge and experience in the software development principles and techniques.
• 3+ years of relevant DevOps experience in a professional setting with a mixed IT experience background.
• Both Czech and English in working proficiency.
• Python will be the first-choice language for most of our automation tools and scripts development, but other programming language will be considered too
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Windows and Linux systems, whether physical computers, virtual computers, or containerized, wherever possible.
• Automate activities using existing tools or our scripts in Python and shell scripting, or some Groovy and other languages.
• Overall knowledge and active use of some CI/CD/CT related tools and DevOps principles like Jenkins pipelines, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of infrastructure and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Awareness of on-prem or public clouds, such as VMware or Proxmox and Azure.
• Development experience using containerization in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Awareness of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
• Understanding of IT networking, common network protocols, and services.

We offer

• Cooperation on a trade license
• ! Invoices are paid within 3 days !
• 6.000 – 7.000 CZK / MD (the final financial amount will depend on the proven knowledge)
• Open and fair cooperation
• Possibility to Hybrid cooperation (both from home and from the office)
• Allocation: Prague
• Start date of assignment: ASAP