As a Staff Cloud Ops Engineer at Wrike, your primary strength lies in PostgreSQL, where you excel in designing, managing, and optimizing internal database systems. Your advanced skills extend to cloud and data center infrastructure, emphasizing security, containers, networking, monitoring, automation, and debugging. You proactively define tasks based on team objectives, guide others, and propose impactful infrastructure improvements.
You would have the opportunity to engage in high-end technical projects, including the implementation of Kafka, development of an internal database management system built on PostgreSQL, and collaboration on command and control systems within an international team.
In this role, you would join a core development team of 250+ engineers developing Wrike and become a part of the whole operations department which is exposed to various technologies and systems. Does this sound like you? If your answer is yes, we’d love to speak with you!
More about Your team
We have 14 folks in the SysOps Department, consisting of two teams distributed in Prague, Cyprus, and Tallinn. As a core team member of our team you will be:
Managing the Wrike product infrastructure with a focus on data infrastructure
Designing reliable solutions to ensure a product uptime SLA of 99.99%
Working with GCP and other providers in the IaC paradigm
Implementing and supporting new infrastructure services
Actively participating in incident response and management, including on-call duties
Developing and maintaining professional connections within and outside of the team
Driving end-to-end completion of significant projects, supported by senior team members
Technical Environment:
We run a Java based SaaS application in Kubernetes for a massive audience of over 20,000 organizations. Our data resides in more than 100 highly available PostgreSQL clusters across our production and pre-production environments. To ensure seamless data access, we’ve implemented robust data streaming pipelines. These pipelines empower our back-end and analytics teams to swiftly retrieve accurate data, contributing to the efficiency and success of our operations.
Key technologies and tools include:
PostgreSQL as DB platform
Kafka and rabbitmq for messaging
Kubernetes and helm (Service-oriented architecture)
Nginx, HAproxy and Istio for load balancing
GCP, AWS and Cloudflare are our cloud providers
Puppet, Ansible and Terraform for defining everything as a code
Python to automate everything
Prometheus (VictoriaMetrics) and Zabbix for monitoring
Graylog, Logstash, Fluentd for logging
Jenkins and Gitlab-CI for building pipelines
You will achieve your best if you have
Advanced experience in designing, managing, and optimizing database management systems based on PostgreSQL
Advanced knowledge in at least two of the following areas, intermediate knowledge of the rest: Data networks, Security, Databases, Cloud providers, Process automation, Containerised application management
Advanced Linux administration skills with experience in maintaining highly available infrastructure for web application stack
Sufficient scripting skills in Python/Bash or other scripting languages
Upper Intermediate English skills
You will stand out with
Advanced experience running Kubernetes platform
Advanced experience with any Cloud Provider management using IAC (AWS/GCP/Azure).
Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals: security principles, hardware, troubleshooting, etc.
Monitoring experience with Zabbix, Grafana or Prometheus
Advanced experience with any of System Configuration Management tools (Ansible/Puppet/Salt etc.)
Perks of working with Wrike
28 calendar days of paid vacation
Sick leave compensation
Life insurance plan
Health insurance plan
Fitness plan (800 EUR/year)
Parental leave
2 volunteer days
Full-remote & On-demand access to Co-working space
Utility allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)
Your recruitment buddy will be Marketa Rezacova, IT Recruiter.
LI-MR1 $60,000 — $90,000/year
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