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.

Purpose

Senior DevOps Engineer 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.

As "Senior DevOps Engineer" you understand the latest developments in the field of Cloud for Windows and Linux, you understand the Cloud network concept and you drive the further development of the OpenStack Cloud platform of the Open Telekom Cloud in the interest of our customers and the OpenSource community.

The Public Cloud Product Unit operates on a national and international level, for medium-sized and large companies. With the new Managed Services Public Cloud, we develop, market and operate agile, cloud-native, forward-looking products and services for the digital world. We see ourselves as innovation drivers and make our customers' business fit for the digital future. Our mission: To be successful in tomorrow, we need to think now about the day after tomorrow - and always together with our customers.

In the Open Telekom Cloud Delivery, we have broken new ground and created an environment in which a completely new type of product based on open source community software is driven forward with the procedures and principles of a community approach. Lean structures, agile and innovative methods and procedures as well as an extremely innovation-driven environment determine our actions. 

With this dynamic and agile orientation, we are the anchor point for the Public Cloud business area in the Deutsche Telekom Group.

We are measured by the delivery of innovative solutions from our platforms and we are consistently focused on this goal. Together with our platform partner and other partners from the OpenStack Ecosystem, we are working sustainably on the further development of the platform. Security and quality aspects are incorporated into the development right from the start in order to create a highly innovative and attractive public cloud product based on German and European security and data protection standards.

We are looking for you to join our team: people who are professionals and evangelists with a great deal of enthusiasm for technology and who will master this challenge together with us.

This includes the following tasks:

• You will drive the further development of the Open Telekom Cloud towards PaaS and SaaS services using agile development methods (DevOps).

                  - Planning of the individual product features according to strategic specifications

                  - Technical and schedule coordination
                  - Coordination of future PaaS / SaaS features (e.g. Serverless, Edge, Hybrid)
                  - Programming prototypes for proof-of-concepts and / or new services

• You do not do a manual task twice, but you consistently automate using common automation frameworks.
• You work enthusiastically and hands-on directly on the technology.
• You will solve complicated problems in daily operations and implement solutions so that errors do not occur again.
• You take care of an adequate monitoring in your area of responsibility and develop tests for our quality assurance.
• You will work together with specialists from our team and other Deutsche Telekom teams on the technology topics of Public Cloud, Open Source and Security.
• Designs, develops, tests and implements infrastructure for CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Manages source code, configuration management, release management, build and deployment activities.
• Setups and manages integration with partner applications.
• Conducts of performance analyses and tunings as well as error analyses and troubleshooting

Education:

• Master´s degree in Information technologies

Experience:

• Information technologies - 5 years 

Certifications:

• Field specific professional certification exam is an advantage, optional agile methodology certification

IT Technical skills:

• Linux Operating System - Expert
• Scripting (Bash, Python) - Expert
• Networking - Expert
• Git - Expert
• Security - Advanced
• Docker / Kubernetes / Openshift - Advanced
• Jenkins / Gitlab - Advanced
• Ansible / Terraform / Puppet - Advanced
• ELK / Prometheus / Icinga - Advanced
• OTC / AWS / Azure - Intermediate

Soft skills:

• Communication and Analytical thinking - Advanced
• Team cooperation - Advanced
• Training and mentoring - Advanced
• Presentation skills - Advanced

Other skills:

• Agile Methodology - Advanced
• Scrum / Kanban - Intermediate

Languages:

• English- Upper intermediate (B2)

Other criteria and requirements:

• Focus on Cloud Technologies (Public Clouds, preferably OpenStack-based, Kubernetes, Terraform) or excellent networking with the relevant OpenSource communities and many years of experience in OpenSource projects.
• Strong experience in infrastructure automation with Ansible, Ansible Tower and/or AWX or other comparable frameworks (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt).
• Practical experience in setting up an OpenStack-based cloud.
• In-depth knowledge in the development of secure scale-out cloud applications as well as the necessary technological building blocks and tools (e.g. PaaS frameworks with CloudFoundry/OpenShift/Docker).
• In-depth knowledge of system technologies (Linux, Xen/KVM, Linux Network and Storage, Systemtools) as well as OpenStack and Docker/LXC/LXD container technologies.
• Daily routine in handling the Linux-/Unix command line
• Good knowledge of agile development processes as well as experience in the close interaction of development and application operation in the cloud (DevOps, CI/CD, CT). 
• Experience with modern tools for collaboration in an agile environment (e.g. GitHub, JIRA, Confluence).
• Detailed knowledge of software development with Python and at least one other language (e.g. Go).

Benefits

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 2600€ /brutto.