Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Remote - Consultants Employed by Service Providers Only
RED Commerce GmbH
Ansprechpartner: Alexandra Fischer
Köln, Deutschland
Beschreibung
On behalf of my client, RED is urgently looking for an experienced SRE Engineer for a new urgent request. Please find the details below:
Job Title: SRE Engineer – 24x7 Operational Support
Location: Remote (resources MUST be based in Germany)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 months+ extension
Workload: 5 days per week
Languages: English
This position is subject to an SÜ2 security clearance requirement
The client will only consider consultants who are permanently employed by a consulting or service provider company.
Role Overview
Our client is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to provide 24x7 operational support for a large-scale Network Observability platform.
The successful candidate will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and optimising Kubernetes-based environments, monitoring and observability platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise logging solutions. The role will involve automation, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
As part of the operational support team, the consultant will participate in a 24x7 on-call support structure, including weekdays, weekends, and public holidays.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms, with a particular focus on Helm chart configuration and lifecycle management.
- Manage and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD to ensure reliable and automated deployments.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to enable scalable, consistent, and repeatable environment provisioning.
- Develop automation scripts using Python, Go and Bash for activities including:
- Environment provisioning
- Platform health checks
- Operational reporting
- Process automation
- Administer and optimise Prometheus monitoring environments, including:
- Scrape job configuration
- Alert rule configuration
- PromQL-based custom queries
- Operate and maintain Thanos for long-term metrics storage and management.
- Develop and maintain monitoring and observability dashboards using Grafana and Perses.
- Set up, administer and maintain Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters for secure and reliable log storage.
- Maintain and optimise Logstash pipelines for data ingestion and transformation.
- Configure and maintain Kibana dashboards for real-time and historical log analysis.
- Ensure secure, scalable and compliant log management in line with enterprise standards.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call support structure, including weekdays, weekends and public holidays.
- Investigate and resolve platform, data ingestion and performance-related incidents.
- Conduct thorough root cause analysis and implement appropriate preventative measures.
- Actively support Major Incident Management (MIM) procedures in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure operational processes comply with EU data protection regulations and relevant VSA/GHB standards.
- Enforce access control policies and regularly audit and update platform permissions.
- Maintain and version all relevant platform documentation, including:
- Architecture diagrams
- Runbooks
- Configuration files
- Operational procedures
Prometheus, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch stacks, as well as several Kubernetes clusters, are among the key requirements for the role.
If you're interested and available, please send your CV over for immediate consideration.