Senior DevOps Engineer in Bratislava/Košice

This role is located in Slovakia (Bratislava or Košice) !

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work as part of a dedicated DevOps team designing, maintaining, and enhancing cloud-native infrastructure that supports data science workloads. You’ll collaborate with multiple development teams with deploying and maintaining time-series forecasting and generative AI applications. The role focuses on building reliable, secure, and observable platform in GCP using Kubernetes, IaC, and automated CI/CD pipelines.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Working in a distributed DevOps team across multiple locations using agile practices

• Supporting the design and operation of core infrastructure on GCP for data science and Python-based ML/AI workloads

• Maintaining and improving Kubernetes environments with Helm and ArgoCD

• Developing and reviewing Terraform modules and cloud configurations

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

• Implementing and optimizing autoscaling strategies for workloads and clusters

• Ensuring robust observability across monitoring, logging, and tracing using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo

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

• Enhancing platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience

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

Competence Profile:

• 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 at least one major cloud provider (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable)

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

• Understanding basic security concepts and helping to identify and mitigate common vulnerabilities

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

• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with 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)

• Experience with relational and document databases, such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB, is a plus

• Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation is a plus

Benefits that make you happy:

• Annual bonus
• Fully paid meal vouchers
• Mobile phone also for private use
• Discounts for selected Telekom products
• Supplementary pension saving contribution
• Cafeteria system of benefits/Multisport card
• Sick days
• Sports club & Health days
• Teambuildings, summer & Christmas party
• Opportunities for career growth
• Referral program
• Flexible working time