Senior Staff Cloud Engineer

We are Ataccama, and we are on a mission to empower organizations to maximize the transformative potential of data and AI. Our product enables both technical and less technical ‘data people’ across their organizations to create high-quality, governed, safe, and reusable data products. It’s what made us a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant® for Data Quality Solutions™, and what inspired Bain Capital Tech Opportunities to invest in our future growth.

Our vision is to be the leading AI-powered cloud data management company and to do that, we’re making Ataccama a great place to work and grow. Our people are located across the globe. They succeed by collaborating as a team and thrive in our company culture defined by these core values:

Challenging Fun

ONE Team

Customer Centric

Candid and Caring

Aim High

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Operations team. This is a technical leadership role where you will have the opportunity to influence the development of our cloud platforms, drive operational excellence, and shape the future of our infrastructure. In addition to contributing to the team’s technical expertise, you will take responsibility for leading strategic missions that align with organizational goals. You'll work closely with engineering and operational teams to improve uptime, reduce toil, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Your challenge

• Help us to build a 1st class SaaS cloud platform, easy to maintain, highly scalable, using the latest modern stack and technologies, secured, updated frequently. Also help us deprecate obsolete services to simplify and reduce operation cost
• Define cloud architecture with product development teams on managed cloud services
• Make the impact by working on Team wide Cloud projects or other Cloud Platform cross team initiatives
• Implement the solutions and deploy the Ataccama platform in collaboration with other team members of the Cloud Platform team, using Ataccama deployment automation tools. Implement best practices, remediate issues, find smart and fast solutions to customer-specific situations and challenges
• Identify and evaluate new technologies, practices, and patterns that will benefit Ataccama and our customers
• Collaborate with a number of Ataccama teams: Deployment Engineering, Product Teams, Cloud Ops Platform Teams
• Eventually, lead and develop other less senior team members and coordinate best practices across teams
• Contribute to our codebase at least 30% of your time
• Help us remove toil, increase team productivity by your investments into automation or newer technologies. Goal is to move faster, remove repetitive tasks, and optimize whenever there is room for it.

Is this you?

• You possess a high level of literacy in cloud and hybrid architecture concepts and services, and tangible hands-on experience in networking, security, authentication, high availability, and other related areas. You stay at the forefront of new and emerging trends and technologies.
• You enjoy explaining complex technical topics and value propositions even to non-technical audiences.
• You are experienced in effectively coordinating and planning multiple projects, executing multiple tasks simultaneously and efficiently while working with conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• You love to talk about our platform evolution in public conferences
• Dreams and details capabilities – To see and develop the big-picture, but being also able to break it down to operationalization
• You know the differences between SLA, SLI, SLO; you know how to calculate the composite SLA and you have experience with operating software on an enterprise scale
• You know what CIS framework is and you have experience with implementing it; you have heard about 12factor

Your technical knowledge

• Hands-on experience working in cloud platforms - preferably AWS, CKS/CKA/CKAD certifications is a big plus
• Proven experience in Architecting and delivering large-scale enterprise data management solutions in on-prem as well as cloud/hybrid/multi-cloud/intra-cloud environments, including Security, Networking, Authentication, High Availability
• Hands-on experience with containerization using cloud automation and orchestration tools
• Real experience with Migration of Monolithic Applications into Microservices
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Working knowledge in at least one IaC (Infrastructure as Code), preferably Terraform
• Strong practical Linux-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
• Strong skills using REST, JSON
• Knowledge of common networking protocols
• Knowledge of cloud services - compute, storage, networking services
• Working experience with some Relational Databases such as RDS, Aurora, good knowledge of various observability stacks

Work equipment

• Company laptop

• Company mobile phone + SIM card & package of mobile data

Perks & Benefits

• Long-Term Incentive Program

• "Bring Your Friend" referral program

• Flexible working hours & flexible working setup

• The Global Family Support Program - A paid leave program to help all parents focus on the new addition to their family

• 25 days of vacation, 2 sick days, and 1 personal day for each calendar year with Ataccama (up to 5 in total)

• Flexipass or Multisport card (after finishing your probation period)

• Annual package for mental health support

• Shared company cards for free entrance to Prague Zoo & Botanical Garden

• Company bikes, longboards, e-scooters

• Online company language courses

• Conference tickets to the best industry events of the year

• Online courses & company access to Udemy to hone your skills

• Company library, where you can even suggest the best educational books for us to order

• Kitchens stocked with fresh fruit and juice, teas, and the best coffee

While we highly value cooperation with all our business partners, we don’t accept unsolicited resumes from any sources other than directly from a candidate. We reserve the right not to pay any fee for sending an unsolicited offer containing the details or resume of a job candidate, even if the relevant candidate is employed by our company.