Automation Engineer

Erste Digital GmbH

Place of work
Tomášikova 64, Bratislava
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
2 500 EUR/month

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Automation Engineers are responsible for the keeping all user-facing services (most notably EGIT CI/CD ToolStack) and many other EGIT production systems running smoothly 24/7/365. SREs are a blend of operations gear-heads and software crafters that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline and mature automation, specializing in systems, whether it be networking, the Linux kernel, or even a specific interest in scaling, algorithms, or distributed systems.
EGIT CI/CD ToolStack is a unique set of modern tools and it brings unique challenges: it’s large repository instance in existence. The experience of our team feeds back into other engineering groups within the company, as well as to ERSTE Group customers running self-managed solutions.

As an Automation Engineer you will:
* Use your shift to prevent incidents from ever happening.
* Manage our infrastructure with Chef, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
* Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
* Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
* Use the available in-house or open source products to run our infrastructure as a first resort and improve the product as much as possible
* Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
* Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow EGIT CI/CD ToolStack scaling to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent data.
* Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
* Plan the growth of EGIT CI/CD ToolStack infrastructure.

Projects you could work on:
* Coding infrastructure automation with Terraform.
* Improving our Zabbix monitoring and building new metrics.
* Helping release management squad to deploy and troubleshoot new versions of our ERSTE group solutions.
* Migrate existing infrastructure components from its current home in Data center to Cloud Platform.
* Support migration projects for Containers and Cloud.

Employee perks, benefits

* We offer an autonomous and diversified position in an experienced team in international environment
* International environment
* Flexible working time
* Possibility of home office
* Opportunity to speak English on daily basis
* Attractive annual performance related financial bonus
* Pension allowances paid by us
* 4 days of extra holiday per year
* Language courses
* Paid sick leave
* Friendly, helpfull team and many more...

Information about the selection process

We thank all applicants for their interest in Erste Group IT International. We are very glad to receive CVs of all candidates that can possibly become our future colleagues.
After receiving your application, we will carefully evaluate it. Please note that due to time limitations we will contact only prospective candidates that meet our expectation best.
In case you are not selected for this particular position, we will keep your CV for possible contact in the future.
If you are interested to know more about us and follow our openings in the future, please visit ww.erstegroupit.com
Thank you once more for your interest.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Secondary with school-leaving examination
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

You may be a fit to this role if you:
* Think about systems - edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations.
* Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
* Know what the use of config management systems like Chef or others is (the one we can use).
* Have solid programming skills.
* Have an urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously.
* Have an urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice.
* Have a proactive, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it.
* Have an urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast.
* Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
* Have experience with Docker, Nginx, Go, Kubernetes, Zabbix

Areas of expertise for Leveling :
* Git flow
* Artifactory
* Terraform
* CDN and load balancing the application
* Kubernetes and containerizing our systems
* Product knowledge
* Monitoring and Metrics in Zabbix and integrations with Slack/Grafana
* Logging infrastructure
* Team organization and planning
* Backend storage management and scaling
* Disaster Recovery and High Availability strategy

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Brief description of the company

Who we are and what we do
We are part of the Erste Group network – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 subsidiaries and over 50,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the Digital Muscle of Erste Group. With our services, we contribute to the realization of Erste Group’s vision: To provide human banking in digital times, and to build Financial Health for over 16 million customers in the CEE region.

Working for Erste Digital
We aim to attract and retain IT experts and enthusiasts that have personality and conviction.
Therefore, we aspire to be an IT employer beyond compare, where everyone has room to grow, learn and reach their full potential.

We bring banking business and IT together, take future developments into account or drive them forward. Short and sweet: We create the future of banking. That‘s why we empower our employees to rethink and continuously develop our digital offerings.

We are Erste Digital. And we are #digitaltotheheart

erstedigital.com
Numbers
Employees: 2,000+ people
Locations: Vienna, Bratislava, Košice and Prague

Number of employees

1000 and more employees

Contact

ID: 3550222  Posting date: 5.12.2019  Basic salary component (gross): 2 500 EUR/month