Site Reliability Engineer

Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer located in Europe, with a strong track record of tackling complex reliability and scalability challenges, and a history of providing technical guidance to teams. If you're a seasoned problem-solver with a passion for automation and operational excellence, and enjoy elevating the skills of those around you, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Do:

• Lead Technical Initiatives: Drive key technical initiatives focused on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical systems, often leading technical aspects within projects.
• Architect and Implement Advanced Solutions: Design and implement sophisticated resilient and scalable solutions, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed systems.
• Master Troubleshooting and Optimization: Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, identify deep-seated root causes, and implement advanced optimizations.
• Build and Evangelize Automation: Develop and champion the adoption of robust automation frameworks and tools, potentially guiding more junior engineers in their development.
• Elevate Observability Practices: Design and implement comprehensive and insightful monitoring and logging solutions, ensuring actionable insights are available across teams.
• Provide Leadership in Incident Management: Take a leadership role in incident response, providing critical technical direction and mentorship during high-pressure situations.
• Champion Post-Mortem Excellence: Lead and contribute to in-depth blameless post-mortem analyses, driving significant improvements based on learnings.
• Mentor and Guide Team Members: Share your extensive knowledge and experience to mentor and guide other SREs and engineers, fostering their technical growth.

What We're Looking For:

• Extensive experience with minimum 5 years in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus.
• Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams.
• Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP.
• Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
• Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash).
• Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
• Organizational and leadership skills are a big plus

Compensation and Benefits:

• Location dependent