What will you do:

Team Leadership:

* Lead a team of 9 engineers and help create an environment where people can grow and do their best work
* Hold regular 1:1s, provide feedback and support individual development
* Set and follow up on individual goals and development plans
* Lead performance reviews and contribute to compensation decisions
* Support the team in solving day-to-day challenges and work with Product Owners on priorities and delivery
* Collaborate with other engineering teams across ESET

Cloud & SW engineering:

* Design, build and operate services running on Azure and AKS
* Design and evolve Kubernetes architecture for microservices, including scaling, networking, ingress and service-to-service communication
* Work hands-on with Terraform and Helm to manage infrastructure and application deployments
* Integrate Kubernetes workloads with Azure services such as Storage, PostgreSQL, Key Vault and Event Hubs
* Work with messaging and networking components such as RabbitMQ, Load Balancers, public APIs, Kuma service mesh and Nginx or other ingress controllers
* Improve performance, reliability, scalability and cloud cost efficiency across our production environment
* Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, including logs, metrics and other observability data
* Address security findings and continuously improve the security of the cloud environment
* Maintain and improve our Jenkins-based CI/CD, including building Docker images and publishing them to Azure Container Registry
* Participate in technical discussions and architecture decisions with other senior engineers, architects and Security
* Contribute to threat modelling and help turn security requirements into practical technical solutions

Our requirements:

* Several years of experience in software, cloud or platform engineering, with strong hands-on experience in production environments
* Strong practical experience with Kubernetes, ideally AKS, including architecture, deployment, scaling, troubleshooting, networking and security
* Experience designing and operating microservices in Kubernetes
* Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code
* Good working knowledge of Helm and Kubernetes-based application deployments
* Solid understanding of **Microsoft Azure** and experience integrating Kubernetes workloads with Azure services
* Experience with containers and Docker
* Experience with CI/CD, ideally Jenkins, and container image build and deployment workflows
* Good communication skills and the ability to give and receive feedback
* Experience leading, mentoring or coordinating engineers
* Fluent English for daily communication

Nice to have:

* Experience with Python or scripting for automation
* Experience with RabbitMQ or other messaging systems
* Experience with Kuma or another service mesh
* Experience with Nginx or other ingress controllers
* Experience with Jenkins / Groovy
* Experience with Azure security and identity
* Experience with threat modelling or working closely with security teams
* Experience working in enterprise or security-focused products