Infrastructure Architect with German - Praha/Brno/remote

xitee? What are we doing? Who are we?

xitee k.s. is a software service provider for customers in German-speaking countries. As a result, we hold a strong competitive edge in the market and are involved in tenders for latest projects in the German market. We work on a number of projects in parallel in three areas, namely Finance & Energy, Health and Digital Business. Thanks to this, we are able to select a project that really suits each team-member. Due to the variety of projects and services, we offer a great opportunity for career growth and gaining responsibility. You can learn and soon grow on our projects. Our values are based on a balance of freedom & responsibility - we have flexible working hours and unlimited home office. It's up to you whether you want to work from home, commute to our highly equipped offices in the center of Prague, or choose your own convenient combination.
We are not a corporation, we have a very personal approach, and offer lots of benefits and pleasant work environment. We are supportive, trustful and motivating.

Our customers are primarily from 3 main sectors:

At Finance&Energy, we are active in development for the leading European financial exchanges. The finance sector is an area we started in and have been in for over 15 years, so we have rich experience and can afford to go into bigger and more complex projects. For example, we are currently developing a brand new greenfield trading system that has an advanced technology architecture and processes tens of thousands of events per second.

In Healthcare, we are working with leading German health insurance companies. We are currently developing a system for managing the insured's account in a microservice architecture for one of the leading German health insurance companies. For example, we are also developing a system for the organization of assistance services for handicapped insureds throughout Germany. Another hot trend in this area is digital aids paid for by health insurance, for example, the Apple watch app we are developing, based on the use of health data from the watch, which allows cardiologists to monitor the ECG of their patients.

The third and our newest sector is Digital Business. We are keeping up, and have opened up further opportunities in this growing area, in the development of cloud-based solutions. A current example is building a platform for financing development projects, running on Microsoft cloud services (Azure).

We put a strong focus on quality
Our goal is to develop high quality software for our customers, so we constantly monitor modern trends, improve our QA processes, pay attention to best practices, and strive to design software to be maintainable in the long term.

As Infrastructure Architect you will be part of our Operations team as expert for all topics related to the design the infrastructure for microservice applications, including properly designed CI/CD pipelines and bring together more software vendors into one running infrastructure.

You will closely cooperate with the project managers and customers and will help them to setup and manage the infrastructure needed for their projects/production environments. You will have opportunity for self-development, realizations of your ideas and learning new things. We can offer you varied work in company where we live our values and where each opinion matters.

What will be your daily duties?

• analysis of requirements and propose the suitable architecture
• close cooperation with the IT department of the customer and close cooperation with the Software development companies which develop the software which we run
• be our proxy to customer and external Software development companies
• prepare documentation
• bring new ideas

What do we expect from you?

Required:

• Education in IT field
• General overview of the microservice architecture (Kubernetes or OpenShift)
• General knowledge of GitOps approach and automation
• General knowledge of the CI/CD process and related tools (GitLab, ArgoCD, Ansible, JFrog, …)
• General overview about whole IT (databases, networking, security, virtualization, …)
• Willingness to learn new things

Beneficial:

• Project/service management (ITIL, PRINCE2)

Personal skills:

• Advanced communication skills in English and German (B2+)
• Flexible, independent and self-motivated
• Ability to meet challenging project deadlines and deliver in a fast moving and change oriented environment
• Sense for detail and for picking the right solution while keeping in mind the business constraints
• Fast self-learning and understanding of current environment
• Being a team player

Benefits

• Hybrid Remote/Office work, work from home from anywhere in the Czech Republic
• Varied work and international projects
• Possibility of yearly bonus
• Flexible working hours
• Self-realization and career growth opportunities
• Modern offices in the centre of Prague (Burzovní palác next to shopping centre Kotva in Nám. Republiky) and modern offices in the centre of Brno (CTP Park Vlněna Clubco nearby the main train station and Vaňkovka)
• Cool and friendly team - no corporate environment
• And lots of other benefits (language courses, access to Pluralsight, home office, sick days, flight,...)