DevOps Engineer Professional – Senior position for Industrial AI Cloud (NVIDIA on Linux/Ubuntu)

Company Description

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

Job Description

Purpose

NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom are jointly developing the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. This AI factory in Germany will host 10,000 GPUs across NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and RTX Pro Servers. Deutsche Telekom provides secure, sovereign and fast infrastructure, including data centers, operations, security, and AI solutions.

Role Overview:

DevOps Engineer Principal / DevOps Professional provides consultation of functional organization to implement DevOps principles in term of culture and technologies. Holder of the position prepares prototypes and concepts for further automation of assigned technology, driving continuous improvement. DevOps Engineer Professional is responsible for entire lifecycle of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines and Infrastructure as Code approaches.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Design, develop, test, implement and support ICT components and applications in order to deliver quality standard product portfolio on AI Factory Cloud platform.
• Develop concepts, processes and methods for automation, optimization, and standardization to satisfy efficiency and automation requirements.
• Consult and provide advice or information at request or at own initiative to all relevant employees or customers regarding technical aspects of products.
• Consult and provide project deliverables to fulfil the project scope.
• Consult and implement new innovative technologies to satisfy innovation strategy.
• Owns responsibility for maintenance & support of enhancement of the Product pipelines with further levels of value chain, connecting pipeline to different platforms and infrastructures, integration of different platforms and infrastructures into the pipeline, root-cause analysis of pipeline runtime errors
• Provide overall solutions and principles in planning, developing, and implementing new products to satisfy business requirements.
• Develop, and implement architecture of services based on AI Factory Cloud platform requirements.
• Mentor and train co-workers to spread knowledge level and develop their skills.
• Creates concepts for further automation of services, processes, and/or operating models.
• Act as key technical lead and solve and coordinate activities across related technologies/outside own team.
• Provide consulting services to project teams on areas of expertise.
• Setups and manages integration with partner applications.
• Research and development in assigned technology, determine business requirements, propose changes and develop implementation plans.   

Qualifications

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• Have Master`s degree in Information technologies
• 5+ years - Experience in the design and delivery of systems based on IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• 3+ years - Experience in building CI/CD pipelines and serverless architectures
• AI Factory Cloud platform sw stack knowledge incl. its dependencies on below layers
• NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated server platform knowledge
• Data Engineering, Data Transformation, Data Migration tools knowledge
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes (or similar) container-based technologies
• Experience with VMware environments (VMware Tanzu Kubernetes)
• Experience with scripting languages (Go/Python/Bash)
• Experience with Automation tools and automation deployments (Ansible/Salt-stack/Terraform/Helm)
• Experience with CI/CD in a Kubernetes environment and repository management
• Expert in automation with Git (GitHub, GitLab) and CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD
• Experience with Linux OS
• Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Experience with monitoring and visualization tools (Grafana, Prometheus, …)

Other skills:

• Good communication skills, analytical thinking, team cooperation, presentation skills, negotiation skills
• speak English- Advanced (C1), German is an advantage 
• Project Management- Basic
• Leadership skills- Basic
• Quality management- Intermediate
• Financial literacy- Intermediate  

Additional Information

Benefits

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 3 800 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.