Lead Cloud Engineer - K8s, Docker, cybersecurity in Brno

Protecting one billion people from cyber threats? If you find this proposition more exciting than scary, come on board and grow with us.

Whalebone is a global company working on user-centric cybersecurity products for telcos, ISPs, enterprises, public institutions, and governments that provide millions of everyday internet users unyielding protection from malware, phishing schemes, ransomware, and other malicious digital attacks without the need for them to download anything. Whalebone is headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic.

At this point, Whalebone has 400+ customers in telecommunications and corporate sectors (A1, O2 Telefonica, Tele2, Panasonic, Bauhaus, and many others) around the globe. With nearly 100 team members of multiple nationalities, Whalebone ranked 22nd in Deloitte’s list of fastest-growing companies in Central Europe.

We create cybersecurity products that people can actually use. We protect them against viruses and fraud on the network so that the users do not have to handle anything.
Thanks to this approach, we already protect tens of millions of people worldwide. Become a significant part of an important and ambitious project as a Lead Cloud Engineer.

🧩Our Tech Stack

• We leverage microservices heavily from day one of Whalebone, there is no legacy system. We containerize everything using Docker and orchestrate it through Kubernetes.
• We avoid cloud vendor lock-in and minimize the usage of any cloud provider-specific services. Our backend can be moved to any managed Kubernetes provider instantly.
• For various use cases of data analysis, we rely mainly on Elasticsearch and Clickhouse, for stream processing Logstash and Kafka and to understand that everything is working fine we observe Grafana dashboards providing us insight into the Prometheus stored metrics.

🔍What will you do

• You will be tech lead for DevOps/Cloud Engineeing and help build, automate and monitor the infrastructure for the core Whalebone software platform.
• Work with Kubernetes and Docker platforms on various public cloud providers (GCP, DigitalOcean, AWS).
• Design and implement various products from CNCF (Prometheus, Argo, Helm, etc.) or other popular vendors like Hashicorp or Elastic.
• Work on monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining existing system.
• Participate in deciding what’s the future of our products.
• Work closely with developers to make sure clients get the best solution possible.
• You have the chance to direct the growth of a platform that is being used by millions of people.

• Experience in containerization such as Docker and containerization orchestration such as Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud computing services in any public cloud provider.
• Knowledge building and updating CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with microservices.
• Soft skills necessary for leadership position

🎯Nice to have

• Computer networking knowledge especially related to DNS.
• Experience with CNCF projects, Hashicorp. Elastic, ClickHouse etc. is a plus.
• Scripting in Bash, Python.

🚀 Why Will you like to work with us?

• Meaningful job - protecting everyday people against malware and hackers all around the globe.

• Rewarding financial package, including the possibility to choose ESOP as a benefit and a motivating flexible part of the remuneration reflecting long term results.

• Flexible working hours and possibility of HO

• Equipment of choice - use the budget and chose what is best for you

• Terrace - beautiful view and available for private parties

• Regular events & teambuildings - grill, enjoy pub quiz or have a breakfast with us

• You will be supported to learn, grow and gain new experiences with us!

• Your opinion will matter to us - discuss your ideas and feedback directly with the CEO or CTO if you feel like they should hear them.