Senior Site Reliability Engineer (m/w/d)
Iskander Business Partner GmbH
Ansprechpartner: Gulchachak Bagautdinova
Berlin, Deutschland
ITSREAzure KubernetesPlatform EngineeringAzure DevOpsKubernetes-SicherheitSaasDevOpsIt OperationsOpenStackVirtualizationHochverfügbarkeits-ClusterReliability Availability Maintainability And Safety SoftwareLoad BalancingZuverlässigkeit der SystemeInfrastructure as Code (IaC)KubernetesRancherComputer-Aided Production EngineeringOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Beschreibung
Location: Berlin, Munich, Pforzheim or Stockholm
Start date: asap
Duration: Freelance or permanent position
Workload: 100%
Remote share: by appointment
Background of the role:
For our client company in the eCommerce technology and Software-as-a-Service sector, we are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (all genders). As part of the transformation of two product discovery solutions into a modern hybrid platform based on Kubernetes and Harvester, you will ensure the reliability, availability and scalability of the systems and actively contribute to the company’s development into a modern SaaS provider.
Responsibilities:
- Define and take ownership of Service Level Objectives, Service Level Indicators and error budgets across both products
- Make data-driven decisions regarding reliability and performance
- Develop and improve incident management processes, including fast detection, clear communication and structured follow-up
- Conduct and establish blameless postmortems and ensure that the resulting measures are implemented
- Reduce manual work through automation and GitOps using tools such as Argo CD or Flux
- Build self-healing and self-service capabilities
- Support the development of a custom Kubernetes operator and the corresponding Custom Resource Definitions
- Introduce and further develop auto-scaling using HPA, VPA, KEDA and the cluster autoscaler
- Enhance the observability landscape for metrics, logs, traces, alerting and operational runbooks
- Plan capacity and costs for the on-premises infrastructure in Frankfurt and Stockholm as well as for cloud environments
- Design and implement burst scenarios into the public cloud
- Use AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting, alerting and operational workflows
- Work closely with the hosting team and experienced engineers
Requirements
Must Have:
- Several years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer or Production Engineer in a SaaS or platform environment
- Alternatively, a strong background in software engineering and IT operations combined with a clear ambition to develop further within Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong understanding of Service Level Objectives, Service Level Indicators, error budgets and incident management
- Strong knowledge of observability, including monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Knowledge of or strong interest in cluster lifecycle management, Kubernetes upgrades and operator patterns
- Experience with or strong interest in Harvester or comparable HCI and virtualization platforms such as KubeVirt, VMware vSphere, ESXi or OpenStack
- Knowledge of GitOps using Argo CD or Flux
- Knowledge of container storage technologies such as Longhorn or Ceph
- Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, including load balancing and ingress
- Knowledge of auto-scaling mechanisms such as HPA, VPA, KEDA and the cluster autoscaler
- Experience in capacity planning for on-premises and cloud infrastructure
- Understanding of networking technologies in production-grade data centre environments, including VLAN
- Strong automation mindset and a structured approach to eliminating manual operational work
- Practical experience using AI tools in day-to-day operations
- Fluent English skills
Nice to Have:
- German language skills
Should you be available and meet the relevant requirements, please feel free to apply with us.
For any questions, please contact your Freelancer Team at ***@***.com.
Thank you and best regards
Your Freelancer Team
Iskander Business Partner