Cloud Engineer

About Ory

Ory Network ...

• is a global, high availability and low latency platform that helps its customers to collect and manage first-party data, prevent fraud through sophisticated attack detection systems and provides valuable insights into security for any data created by system access and product adoption.
• offers cloud-native, end-to-end services dedicated to securing and managing user authentication, authorization and API protection for humans, robots, devices, and software across various internet services. State-of-the-art solutions for access security include passkeys, passwordless login, social login, multi-factor authentication and hardware tokens.
• helps its customers use zero-trust security across their stack, including data protection, compliance and risk management.

Ory is an open-source organization welcoming collaboration and contributions from an active global community to its leading products. With over 30,000 community members and over 250 GitHub repositories, Ory maintains the world’s leading open-source identity management, authentication and authorization ecosystem and community. Ory Network builds on this knowledge and experience.About this Role

This role will work on developing our cloud environment and data platform, including conception and architecture, and building a global, scalable infrastructure. 
Our technology stack includes:

• Cloudflare as our CDN, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our cloud provider
• Kubernetes (GKE) as our container orchestration
• Crossplane for Infrastructure as Code
• ArgoCD for Kubernetes GitOps, GitHub Actions for CI operations
• Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, AlertManger, and Grafana for building our observability and monitoring system

Key Tasks and Deliverables

• Build, expand and maintain our Kubernetes-based infrastructure across different regions
• Develop tooling and automation for operation processes such as cluster provisioning, application deployment, DNS management, Load balancer management, etc.
• Be part of the on-call rotation
• Improve our monitoring and alerting stack to advance observability
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes and implement fixes
• Improve build, deployment, and release pipelines to harden and speed up the processes 
• Create internal, technical documentation covering implemented changes
• Foster the DevOps principles and practices, promote the DevOps approach among other teams
• Support cybersecurity incident response and forensic activities
• Contribute to our Open Source projects and our team's Software Development Life Cycle

Minimum Requirements

• Work from the office in Gliwice / Poland  
• Live in Gliwice region (no paid relocation)
• Bachelor degree in a MINT subject (mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, technology), economics or a comparable education. 
• 3+ years of experience in building, improving, and maintaining cloud-native solutions using GCP (or other cloud provider)
• Hands-on Kubernetes user, experienced in either application development or platform administration (CKAD, CKA is a plus)
• Professional Experience with Go or Python and bash scripting knowledge 
• Practical understanding of monitoring applications and infrastructure, as well as a security mindset
• Practical understanding of the DevSecOps principles balancing speed of delivery and security
• Familiar with working in a production setting
• Good English skills

Mindset

• Will - a desire to excel, act with courage, persevere, learn and innovate
• Cultural fit - align with Ory’s core values (think big - move fast, passion & excellence, innovation, customer centricity, respect)
• Results-oriented - deliver on our KPIs / desired outcomes

Why Ory?

• Be part of an international, fast-growing security start-up
• Take on responsibility and shape things right from the start
• Work in a flat organizational structure
• Work with high-quality technical equipment
• Work in a very modern, open space and collaborative office in Gliwice / Poland
• 30 days of vacation

Contact Information

We are looking for people with passion, curiosity, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience does not precisely match the job description. Your skills and curiosity will stand out and set you apart.

If you have questions or feedback regarding this position you can contact us via Mail hr@ory.sh.

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