Senior Site Reliability Engineer d/f/m

Salary: 55.000 - 95.000 € per year

Requirements:

Extensive experience designing, operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production environments.

Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems and modern infrastructure.

Experience operating Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes-based platforms at scale.

Experience designing secure, resilient and highly available production environments.

Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage, security and workload scheduling.

Experience managing platform lifecycle activities, including upgrades, maintenance and operational readiness.

Strong automation mindset with Infrastructure as Code and configuration as code.

Experience applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations.

Experience designing reusable solutions for consistent adoption across multiple engineering teams.

Strong understanding of observability, including metrics, logs, traces and operational insights.

Experience integrating security, governance and compliance into technical solutions.

Experience supporting production environments, incident response and continuous service improvement.

Good understanding of modern software delivery practices and engineering automation.

Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills.

Experience designing and operating engineering services used by multiple independent teams is advantageous.

Experience building secure-by-default environments with automated guardrails is advantageous.

Experience creating self-service capabilities with clearly defined ownership boundaries is advantageous.

Experience establishing engineering standards and reference architectures is advantageous.

Experience driving standardisation while balancing flexibility and team autonomy is advantageous.

Experience improving developer experience without compromising security or reliability is advantageous.

Experience reducing operational complexity through automation and simplification is advantageous.

Experience using data and operational metrics to drive continuous improvement is advantageous.

Experience evaluating and introducing technologies based on measurable value is advantageous.

Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a strong engineering culture is advantageous.

Experience in environments where reliability, security and operational excellence are fundamental engineering outcomes is advantageous.

Responsibilities:

Operate and improve RWESTs central Amazon EKS platform, including day-2 operations, lifecycle management, upgrades and platform support.

Help provide a secure, self-service Kubernetes platform with automated guardrails so development teams can deploy applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.

Contribute to consistent platform standards across cluster configuration, monitoring, networking, security controls and lifecycle management.

Support a sustainable 24x7 operational model for Kubernetes and related platform services, including Kubernetes, GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, JFrog and Elastic.

Build and maintain automation, Infrastructure as Code and reusable platform patterns to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.

Improve platform observability by supporting monitoring, logging, alerting and operational visibility across shared Kubernetes services.

Help drive stronger security and compliance through consistent guardrails, governance and automated controls.

Work closely with development squads to support onboarding, platform adoption and day-to-day use of the central platform.

Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement of platform reliability and support quality.

Share knowledge, document standards and help establish the central SRE Platform Team as the accountable owner for shared platform services.

Help establish the central Kubernetes platform service and support the transition of platform ownership and operational responsibility to the dedicated Cross-Functional / SRE team.

Technologies:

Azure

Cloud

DevOps

GitHub

Support

JFrog

Kubernetes

Security

Web

More:

We are RWE Supply & Trading GmbH, the interface between RWE and energy markets around the world. Approximately 2,000 employees from over 50 countries trade (renewable) electricity, (green) gas, commodities and CO2 emission allowances; we also commercially optimise RWEs power plant dispatch and market electricity from renewables. This is a permanent, full-time or part-time Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes Platform role in our Department Insights, starting as soon as possible. We are establishing a central Site Reliability Engineering capability to own, operate and continuously evolve Kubernetes across RWEST, providing development teams with a secure, reliable and highly automated service. You will join the engineering organisation responsible for a core technology capability and help shape its design, operation and ongoing improvement at enterprise scale, working alongside experienced engineers who value ownership, collaboration and technical excellence. We welcome applications irrespective of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation or identity.

last updated 42 week of 2026