Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Designs and maintains cloud infrastructure for a hospitality software suite using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, automating deployments and observability for microservices.

Shiji Group provides software solutions and services for the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hotel management solutions, to food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more.

Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, and later changed to a software provider for the whole consumer market, Shiji Group today comprises 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands, serving over 91,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants and 600,000 retail outlets.

Shiji is committed to connecting the global business of hospitality. We provide an integrated suite of technological solutions that empower hotel, retail, food, and entertainment companies to better connect with their guests.

Daylight PMS is a distributed system that serves the hospitality industry. It is a solution that allows hotel employees or hotel managers to handle various activities such as managing reservations, payments and hotel services within the hotel or between hotels. The system consists of many domain-oriented microservices developed under a few cross-functional teams.

Technologies used in our team:

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • VictoriaMetrics
  • Hashicorp stack
  • Gitlab
  • Nexus
    Our Daily work:
  • We use Kanban to manage tasks
  • Our teamwork is based on Jira
  • We participate in daily, weekly and retro meetings
  • We use Gitlab as a code repository with a trunk-based development approach
  • We use Gitlab CI to automate our (and other's) jobs
  • We build environments in AWS with Terraform/Terragrunt
  • We develop deployment solutions for Kubernetes
  • We support local environments with Docker/docker-compose (for developers)
  • We create libraries, tools and AWS Lambdas in Python
  • We create Docker images for automation and internal usage
  • We act using the "Everything as Code" philosophy
  • We do not release applications to the environments (there is a dedicated team of Release Managers)
  • We use MS Teams to spread knowledge and participate in meetings

Our system:

  • Our primary cloud service provider is AWS. We use most of the popular services including EC2, S3, RDS, SES, SNS and many more
  • We write all of our infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Our application that is written in .NET Core runs on top of Kubernetes cluster deployed in EKS
  • We have very large observability stack that includes collecting logs and metrics and visualizing it in Grafana and Kibana
  • Cloud Infrastructure Team is also responsible for managing GitLab, Jenkins and Nexus
  • We write our internal tool set using Python and Golang

Additional Information

How We Work:

  • Please note that: We are looking for candidates based in the Silesia region (office in Katowice. Fully remote work is not an option, and unfortunately, applications from more distant locations will not be considered in the recruitment process.

What Do We Offer?

  • Basics
    • Flexible working hours
    • Subsidy for the purchase of glasses (300 PLN/year)
    • Free parking 3 minutes from the office or shared underground parking (can be reserved - first come, first served)

    Health & Safety

    • Private medical care with dentists package for you and your family
    • Group life insurance for you and your partner
    • Multisport card as part of the Worksmile package

    Working conditions & Development

    • Dell laptop, keyboard, mouse, wireless headphones and monitor
    • 40h for development during work time
    • Free access to group language lessons
    • In-house workshops, training sessions or meet-ups
    • Access to platforms like: OpenUp, Pluralsight and GoodHabitz

    Extras you may like

    • Worksmile cafeteria and 520 points per month to be used in vouchers
    • Referral bonus if new employee is referred
    • Chill room with table football & PlayStation
    • Free snacks (every day)
    • Team building events

Sounds good? Let’s talk! 😊

  • Minimum 3 years of commercial experience in AWS and Kubernetes
  • Minimum 1 year of commercial experience in Terraform
  • Experience in GNU Linux
  • Experience with CI/CD process using Jenkins or Gitlab
  • Team player
  • Opennes to new technologies and paradigms
  • Ability to investigate and analyze information and to draw conclusions
  • The drive to solve any challenge that is thrown your way
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

    Nice to have:
  • Certification in AWS or Kubernetes