Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Germany

• Operate 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
• Co-build the Kubernetes platform, including cluster design, 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, 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 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
• Share knowledge through internal and external documentation and mentoring
• Participate in on-call duty in a fair rotation

• Degree in computer science or a related STEM field, or comparable vocational training
• Several years, ideally 5+ years, of experience as an SRE, DevOps or platform engineer in business-critical production environments
• 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 using 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
• Experience with 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 a good sense of their strengths and limits
• Customer-focused and structured way of working
• Ability to explain technical topics clearly
• Fluent German and English

• Flexible work model and remote work option
• Competitive salary
• 30 days vacation
• Sabbatical option
• Wellpass
• Job bike
• Corporate benefits
• Hardware of your choice
• Room for creativity, co-design and further development