Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

In the Czech Republic, Alpiq is represented with two companies. Our wholesale energy trading and client delivery company, Alpiq Energy SE, which is active on the electricity and gas markets in CESEE and focuses on offering electricity and gas supply products to Czech end consumers – businesses, industrial clients and public sector, and our service company, Alpiq Services CZ s.r.o., which provides business services to numerous group companies.

Alpiq IT General context: 
The Application & Cloud Integration Services team of Alpiq Group IT provides various Alpiq internal services including the 7x24h support of business critical systems, database services (e.g. fine tuning, SQL query optimization), the operation and/or management of various applications or the integration of new cloud applications/services. The team is also responsible for the operation and improvement of Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments generated by the Alpiq AWS Framework. 

We are looking for an AWS Operations specialist based in Prague, eager to take responsibilities, learn and continuously improve services.
As a Senior Cloud infrastructure engineer you will part of the infrastructure team that maintains and develop enhancements for an AWS multi-account organization framework, holding more than 140 accounts and projects. Working together with the architects to Enforce in an automated way the security requirements, cost best practices and all tasks related to the maintenance of the framework, which is constantly evolving.

Your responsibilities:

• Support ramp-up of AWS usage with the implementation of automations in order to reduce manual operation effort 
• Conduct improvements in operational practices, tools & processes 
• Day-day operational tasks (monitoring performance, availability and utilization, planning and executing changes) 
• Handle incidents (analysis, provide work-around) in cooperation with service providers
• 7x24h stand by duty on a rotation basis 
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and problem management 
• Manage application services 

• Advanced in AWS services and best practices (preferred solutions architect certificate) including AWS Organizations, AWS lambda, AWS VPC and many others (very important)
• Advanced Terraform coding (very important)
• Experience with migration of apps from on-premises to cloud (quite important)
• Scripting skills in at least 1-2 languages:  Python, Bash, Powershell (very important)
• Familiar with GIT and CI/CD best practices
• Familiar with container technologies
• Networking skill are preferred (DNS, certificates, Routing, etc)
• SQL and basic DB knowledge is a plus
• Experience with Datadog or similar log monitoring tool is a plus
• Web app (front end + backend) experience is a plus
• Familiarity with serverless approach is a plus

• Annual leave of 5 paid weeks
• 10 days of "sickdays" (fully paid sick leave)
• Year-end recognition in a value of one gross monthly salary
• Annual package to Cafeteria account set but functional level
• 500 CZK monthly contribution to Cafeteria for relaxing activities
• 2000 CZK monthly contribution for private pension insurance
• Financial loyalty reward provided every 5th year with the company
• Referral bonus 15.000 CZK as a reward for recommending new colleague
• Free language courses (English, German, Czech)
• Flat rate meal programme with an average value of 1.200 CZK per month
• Free refreshment in the office (soft drinks, fruits)
• Voluntary social and sports activities
• Informal dress code
• International environment with more than 20 nationalities
• Pleasant working atmosphere & environment in the very downtown of Prague 1 (metro Můstek and Národní třída – walking distance up to 5 minutes)