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Wallet icon Coin icon Rate 140 000 CZK - 220 000 CZK / month info

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Timer icon Form of cooperation Freelance: Full-time
Briefcase icon Sector Banking
Location icon Location Praha, 50% Remote
Project duration 12 months with possible extension
Period of cooperation 02.11.2026 - 02.11.2027
Start date 02.11.2026 - 07.12.2026
Project duration 12 months with possible extension
Period of cooperation 02.11.2026 - 02.11.2027
Start date 02.11.2026 - 07.12.2026

Technology

  • RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Bash
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • OpenShift
  • Terraform
  • GCP Google Cloud Platform
  • Grafana
  • Github
  • Helm
  • Prometheus
  • GKE Google Kubernetes Engine
  • GitHub Actions

Languages

  • English flag English - active, B2/C1/C2

Project description

  • work on cloud infrastructure of critical 24/7 financial risk systems in a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment
  • management and development of Kubernetes/GKE environments with an emphasis on high availability, fault tolerance, and zero-downtime operation
  • development of GitOps delivery using ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Infrastructure as Code via Terraform
  • management of GKE clusters including performance optimization, service mesh reliability, and automated lifecycle management
  • ensuring deployment to a production OpenShift cluster and its support
  • building and supporting secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise infrastructure in GCP
  • creating and managing modular and reproducible infrastructure and configuration using Terraform and modern configuration management
  • ensuring high availability, multi-zone/multi-region disaster recovery, and continuous delivery
  • support for observability and monitoring through Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and GCP Cloud Operations
  • collaboration with developers, platform teams, architects, and security specialists
  • collaboration takes place in a hybrid mode with at least 2 days per week in the Prague offices

Project requirements

  • strong hands-on production experience with GCP, especially GKE and related cloud services
  • excellent communication and teamwork skills
  • active knowledge of English at a minimum B2 level
  • advanced practical experience with:
    • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in a production environment – especially IAM, VPC, Compute Engine, GKE, and Secret Manager
    • Kubernetes and container orchestration in a production environment, preferably GKE
    • Terraform in an enterprise environment
    • Linux and systems engineering
  • experience with:
    • implementing declarative GitOps workflows using ArgoCD
    • creating scalable and secure CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions
    • Helm and Kustomize
    • container runtimes and container security
    • automation scripting in Python, Bash, or Go
    • designing and operating mission-critical systems with strict SLAs, low-latency, and zero-downtime requirements
    • modern AI/GenAI technologies and their active utilization
  • advantageous:
    • GCP certification, e.g., Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
    • experience with Service Mesh, especially Istio / Anthos Service Mesh
    • knowledge of zero-trust security models
    • experience with modern observability frameworks, ideally Grafana Cloud
    • experience with financial market infrastructure, trading/clearing platforms, or quantitative risk management systems

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