Senior Site Reliability Engineer – SRE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Oversee and manage both new and existing infrastructure through proactive and reactive maintenance.

• Detect technical issues and bottlenecks, collaborating with the engineering team to address them.

• Ensure compliance of infrastructure and processes with ISO standards while assisting in maintaining certifications.

• Aid engineering teams in ensuring smooth operation of tools and applications in production environments.

• Supervise system backups while confirming that RTO and RPO targets are achieved.

• Assist in software release management to reduce disruptions and enhance uptime.

• Participate in off-duty/pager duty rotations to guarantee continuous reliability and support.

• Lead postmortem discussions following system disruptions to identify opportunities for preventative enhancements.

• Monitor system alerts and respond promptly to sustain system health and availability.

• Engage in server capacity planning to meet current and future demands.

• Define and implement the Site Reliability Strategy.

• Provide support and mentorship to less experienced team members.

• Manage stakeholder relationships and prioritize competing demands.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related discipline.

• Over 7 years of experience in site reliability engineering or a comparable role.

• At least 3 years in SRE, DevOps, or related infrastructure positions.

• Experience in supporting and mentoring less experienced team members.

• Capability to integrate alerting and observability into production systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.

• Demonstrated experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (ECS, EC2, etc.) or Azure.

• Extensive expertise in using Terraform and Ansible.

• Familiar with incident management, postmortems, and enhancing on-call experiences.

• Knowledgeable about disaster recovery planning and testing.

• Strong understanding of system monitoring tools.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and adeptness at troubleshooting complex issues.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Proven experience in managing system backups with an understanding of RTO and RPO.

• Familiarity with release management processes.

• Willingness to work in an on-call capacity.

• Ability to define and implement a Site Reliability Strategy.

• Experience in managing stakeholders and their expectations.

• Ability to handle multiple priorities and context switching effectively.

• Proficiency in Python.

• Must reside in Germany with valid work or residence permits.

🏝️ Benefits

• 30 Days Paid Time Off.

• Remote-First Flexibility – Work from anywhere in Germany, with the option to collaborate in person at offices in Stuttgart and Berlin (depending on the role).

• Generous Learning & Development Budget.

• Choose Your Ideal Work Equipment – Apple or Microsoft devices.

• Purpose-Driven Work.

• Great colleagues and an open, transparent, international, and inclusive culture.

• Work-Life Balance and flexible working arrangements.

• Equal opportunity employer.