Information Security Engineer (GCP/Kubernetes)

Location: Prague, Czech Republic; hybrid work. Up to 12 days of remote work from EU countries per year.

Company

hirify.global Group provides financial market infrastructure and services across trading, clearing, settlement, and market data, supported by integrated and automated IT solutions.

What you will do

• Design and develop distributed applications and infrastructure based on GKE and OpenShift.
• Automate infrastructure creation and application delivery with Jenkins, ArgoCD, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Design observability solutions for monitoring system and application health.
• Maintain stable application environments and troubleshoot PaaS, OpenShift, and GKE platform issues.
• Strengthen security posture, implement automated OpenShift deployment and configuration, and participate in the on-call rotation.
• Document software changes and problem-resolution procedures.

Requirements

• University degree in Information Technology or equivalent.
• Experience with public cloud, particularly GCP.
• Hands-on familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• In-depth understanding of the software development lifecycle and tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Helm.
• Strong understanding of networking, including cloud networking and SDN.
• Hands-on experience with automation scripting and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of DNS, SSH, HTTPS, and their behavior across networks.
• Experience with automation, software deployment, and orchestration technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, and GitHub.

Nice to have

• Experience with ELK, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent monitoring tools.
• Expertise in RPM-based Linux, including CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9, installation, monitoring, maintenance, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Kanban and Scrum.
• Experience deploying and managing Java-based applications in Linux, virtualization, or containerized environments, plus troubleshooting skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work and flexible working hours.
• Remote work from EU countries for up to 12 days per year.
• Group Share Plan with a discount on company shares.
• Pension contribution of 3% of gross salary, increasing to 5% after five years.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including a covered Multisport card, life and accident insurance, sick days, and 100% salary contribution during sick leave for up to 56 days.
• 25 vacation days, covered public transport in Prague, free parking, a monthly Pluxee benefit account of 1200, and an annual personal development budget of €690.