Hybrid Staff Site Reliability Engineer

at Outreach

• Job title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Ansible, Azure, Cloud, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Prague, Czech

About the role

• Site Reliability Engineer responsible for Kubernetes and cloud configuration at Outreach. Collaborating on infrastructure improvements while supporting engineering teams with scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Working on team-wide projects and initiatives mostly focusing on improving the platform for which we are responsible
• Kubernetes clusters maintenance & improvements (EKS & AKS)
• Implementing new tools/projects (Karpenter, KEDA, Istio, ScaleOps, Ansible, ...)
• Improving our general infrastructure management by either replacing outdated parts or creating new ones from scratch
• Supporting & helping other engineers at Outreach
• Reacting to incoming requests/questions on a dedicated slack channel
• Participating in the on-call rotation. (On-call in our team is a team thing, no one is left alone)
• Researching new cool & useful technologies that might help us on our mission

Requirements

• Proficient in Microsoft Azure Cloud
• Experience with creating & managing production K8s clusters
• Experience with digging into & investigating various K8s problems
• Proficient in any IaaC tool (Terraform / OpenTofu preferred)
• Proficient in Linux-based systems (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Bottlerocket, ...)
• Proficient in working with version control systems (Github,…)
• Proficient in any scripting language (bash, python,...)
• Proficiency in Golang is a plus
• Team player - someone who is not afraid to ask for help and give one when needed
• Willingness to continuously learn and grow both as a person and in their career
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Someone who believes in automating away problems
• Problem solver - someone who is not afraid of difficult problems and is willing to dig deep to solve it

Benefits

• Amazing working space with a running track on its roof
• Flexible time off, 5 weeks of vacation, and 5 annual sick days
• 4% employer supplemental pension monthly contribution
• Private medical care for employee and spouse with Program Health Plus
• Life insurance at 2x annual salary
• 5.000 CZK monthly allowance for meal vouchers, flexipasses and other personal expenses
• 16 weeks of annual top up maternity leave pay or 8 weeks of fully paid paternity leave
• Opportunity to be part of company success via the RSU program
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups like OWN+ (Outreach Women's Network), Adelante (Latinx community), OBX (Outreach Black Connection), Mosaic (AAPI community), Pride (LGBTQIA+), Gender+, Disability Community, and Veterans/Military
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• Fun company and team outings because we play just as hard as we work