DevOps Engineer (freelance)
At a glance
Mid-level DevOps & Release role at Devoteam. Praha 1 · contract.
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What you'll do
- Keep cloud applications reliable by diagnosing problems and improving their performance
- Build automation and pipeline code, then test and release application changes across AWS services
- Create database setup and upgrade scripts for CI/CD, and handle database installation, migration, backup and recovery
- Investigate live database problems, recommend workarounds, and document designs, code and user guidance
- Suggest infrastructure changes that strengthen reliability and support growth
What you bring
- At least three years deploying and supporting web applications, with three years using AWS services
- At least three years working with Kubernetes orchestration and automation tools such as Helm, Ansible or Terraform
- Five or more years with cloud and server architecture, REST APIs, and microservices delivery
- Hands-on experience with databases including MSSQL, MySQL or Postgres
Who this fits
This mid-level freelance contract suits a DevOps engineer with substantial cloud, Kubernetes and database experience. The role is hybrid in Praha 1.
From the employer
Devoteam is a technology consulting firm specialising in AI-led transformation for businesses and public institutions across EMEA. Its work is built on one vision: Tech for People.
With 30 years of technology consulting experience, the company today specialises in cloud, data, cybersecurity and AI.
Through its AI career programme, Devoteam constantly certifies its 11,000 specialists. Devoteam embeds forward-deployed engineers, tech experts and AI agents within clients’ core business units to design, build and scale AI platforms that accelerate business growth. It maintains strategic partnerships with the world’s leading technology & AI providers.
Devoteam has been a ServiceNow Elite Partner since 2019. In 2026, it was recognised as ServiceNow Partner of the Year for the fourth consecutive year.
Your duties are:
- Support and troubleshoot all applications to ensure our cloud services is optimized for performance and reliability.
- Implement Automation and pipeline codes in a timely fashion.
- Test and Deploy software/applications updates, new features and hotfixes using various CI/CD tools like (Helm charts, Ansible, GitLab pipelines, terraforms) across multiple cloud services (AWS) consistency.
- Develop database installation and upgrade script, which is part of CI/CD.
- Provide technical solutions, support, and perform several activities for a new or customized database of products/components used in the project which includes but is not limited to database design, installation, upgrade, migration, backup, recovery, failover, HA, hardening, monitoring, etc.
- Support, investigate and propose solutions/workarounds for production issues related to the database.
- Provide documentation as appropriate including design documentation, comments in code, and end-user documentation.
- Provide input to improve the scalability and reliability of infrastructure to the Automation Architects.
- 3+ years’ experience in deploying and supporting web-based applications.
- 3+ years’ must have experience with orchestration and Automations tools (Helm charts, Ansible, Terraforms, Yaml, Python, Json) and Cloud Services
- 3+ years’ must have extensive experience working with Kubernetes Orchestration
- Experience working with DBs: MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Elastic Cloud, etc.
- 5+ years’ experience with cloud and server architecture and with REST APIs, microservices development and deployment.
- Experience with PaaS technologies (K8s, Open Shift, etc.)
- Experience with building pipelines for Infrastructure as a code using Terraform
- 3+ years` must have experience on AWS cloud services