Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Eastern Europe

• Run the existing cplace Cloud 1.0 reliably and securely for customers
• Shape the architecture and operating model of the Kubernetes-based cplace Cloud 2.0
• Design clusters, networking, storage, tenant isolation and scaling
• Plan and drive migration of customer environments from Cloud 1.0
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, GitOps repositories and platform software such as self-service portals, APIs and automation
• Conduct code reviews and create automated tests and policy as code
• Operate and improve Linux servers, containers, SQL databases and Elasticsearch
• Resolve bugs, findings and capacity issues through incident and problem management and post-mortems
• Convert manual procedures into versioned, tested code using Ansible, Terraform and n8n
• Improve monitoring, logging and alerting
• Own backup and recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity, including regular testing
• Implement security and compliance requirements such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR
• Optimize cost and capacity
• Drive AI use in operations, including incident and log analysis and agents for runbooks and routine tasks
• Collaborate with product development for smooth releases
• Represent the team technically in customer meetings, tenders and customer projects
• Contribute to internal and external documentation and mentor others
• Participate in on-call duty in a fair rotation

• Degree in computer science or a related STEM field, or comparable vocational training
• Several years of experience as an SRE, DevOps or platform engineer in business-critical production environments; ideally 5+ years
• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, including operations, upgrades, troubleshooting, storage and networking
• Experience with at least one cloud provider; AWS, GCP, Azure and/or Hetzner Cloud a strong plus
• Deep experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps and Git-based collaboration via pull requests and code reviews
• Experience writing modular, tested and maintainable code
• Strong Linux skills
• Experience with SQL databases such as MariaDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana and Loki/ELK
• Solid software engineering skills, ideally in Go or Python
• Confident Bash scripting
• Good understanding of cloud security, including network segmentation, secrets management and WAF
• Hands-on experience with AI tools in everyday engineering and understanding of their strengths and limits
• Customer-focused and structured way of working
• Ability to explain technical topics clearly
• Fluent German and English
• Participation in on-call duty in a fair rotation
• Must be based in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania or Slovakia and hired via EOR or staffing partner

• The chance to shape a new cloud platform from the start, with real influence on architecture and technology
• An experienced, collaborative team spanning SRE, Support, Escalation Engineering and Technical Account Management
• Exciting enterprise customers and varied technical challenges
• Working environment where modern AI tools are readily available and actively developed further
• Employment via EOR or staffing partner, with local employment and full integration into the Cloud Operations team