Senior DevOps Engineer - Commodities IT (f/m/d)

Location: Prague, Czech Republic; hybrid work. Work from abroad is available for up to 12 days per year from EU countries.

Company

hirify.global operates financial market infrastructure and technology products, including commodities trading and auction applications.

What you will do

• Lead the deployment infrastructure and application operations for M7 Trading, M7 Auction, middleware, and related primarily on-premise systems.
• Automate, deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, patch, upgrade, and tune application hosts and production environments.
• Build and maintain monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, and metrics-based capacity and performance management.
• Support internally developed and third-party software from testing through production and ensure reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve infrastructure architecture, automation, containerization, operability, security, compliance, and reliability.
• Provide architectural guidance to development, manage incidents and on-call operations, and mentor team members.

Requirements

• University degree in Information Technology or equivalent, or 6+ years of experience in technical operations within highly critical, 24/7 financial or enterprise environments.
• Advanced expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including installation, monitoring, maintenance, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Deep experience with automation, deployment, orchestration, and continuous integration and delivery, particularly Ansible, Jenkins, etcd, Git, and GitHub.
• Proven experience working with classical on-premise stacks and migrating legacy systems toward containerization while considering regulatory and high-availability constraints.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills; ability to take responsibility, manage incidents, and deliver independently under time pressure.
• Collaborative approach with active knowledge sharing, task delegation, critical discussion, and productive communication.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Participation in 24/7 production support and on-call shifts is required, averaging two one-week shifts and two one-week on-call duties per month.

Nice to have

• Hands-on administration of Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, or Prometheus.
• Strong networking knowledge, including topologies, load balancers, firewalls, switches, proxies, and troubleshooting tools such as telnet, ss, and Wireshark.
• Architecture experience with high availability, disaster recovery, fault tolerance, serverless systems, or microservices.
• Experience with enterprise security requirements, including certificates, TLS encryption, and central identity management.
• Experience implementing DevOps, SRE, or Agile working models.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work and flexible working hours.
• 12 days of remote work from EU countries per year.
• Group Share Plan with a discount on company shares and pension fund contributions of 3% of gross salary, increasing to 5% after five years.
• Fully covered Multisport card, life and accident insurance, sick days, and 100% salary continuation during sick leave for up to 56 days.
• 25 vacation days, covered public transport in Prague, free parking, and a monthly Flexible Benefit Account of 1200.
• Access to e-learning platforms, internal development programs, mentoring, and a learning budget.