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Site Reliability Engineer (m/f/d) – E2E Observability & Dev(Sec)Ops Enablement

Cologne

Full-time/part-time

Immediately

Permanent

Company profile

We employ people with energy. People who are passionate about meeting the needs of our customers. Together, we ensure the secure supply of energy and drinking water to the Rhineland region. In doing so, we are already thinking about tomorrow today. As a future-oriented company, we are helping to shape the energy transition at all levels.

As an employer, we offer varied and responsible work, performance-based compensation, and excellent social benefits. Our employees work in an attractive professional environment with individual development opportunities, a modern corporate culture, and flexible, hybrid working time models with home office options.

Within our Information Technology division, we are currently looking to fill the position of Site Reliability Engineer (m/f/d) – E2E Observability & Dev(Sec)Ops Enablement at our Cologne location.

Why this position is important

Our IT services are the backbone of a secure supply and the digital energy transition. As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will operationalize an end-to-end (E2E) view of our IT services, establish observability as standard, and integrate development and operations so that we can proactively detect disruptions, reduce MTTR, and reliably serve our customers.

Responsibilities

Your tasks

• You will be responsible for the E2E visibility of our technical services (observability/monitoring/alerting) and set standards for telemetry, dashboards, and runbooks.
• You will establish the DevOps lifecycle: from product backlog to operations, including deployment automation, release, and incident processes.
• You will introduce an SLO/SLI-based operating model and manage it via error budgets.
• You moderate and standardize blameless post-mortems and derive sustainable improvements with our E2E management (problem management, RCA).
• You develop and anchor working agreements for cross-functional collaboration between Dev, Ops, Security, Network, and DB teams.
• You integrate security & compliance into pipelines and operations (e.g., scanners, policies, audits) and connect ITIL/ITSM with DevOps principles.
• You consolidate tooling (monitoring/logging/tracing/CI/CD) into a harmonized platform, including a migration and adaptation plan.
• You will coach teams (enablement, training, guilds/communities of practice) and drive cultural and process change.

Requirements profile

What you bring to the table

Must-haves

• Several years of experience (≈ 6–10 years) in DevOps/SRE with responsibility for observability, operational processes, and automation.
• Proven implementation of SLO/SLI and error budgets, alerting concepts, and telemetry standards in hybrid environments. Experience in moderating and conducting blameless post-mortems.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, IaC, and cloud/on-prem infrastructure (network, security, platforms, databases in interaction).
• Strength in change/stakeholder management at multiple management levels; moderation, conflict resolution, decision-making ability.

Nice-to-haves Experience in regulated environments/critical infrastructure. Practical experience with Kubernetes platform operation, service mesh, policy-as-code. Expertise in secrets/identity management.

Salary & benefits

Why RheinEnergie

This position is remunerated in accordance with pay scale 12 of the collective agreement for utility companies (TV-V). For a full-time position, this corresponds to a gross annual salary of around €71,000–97,000 (depending on professional experience and qualifications).

In addition to the standard salary, our employees receive numerous special benefits, such as additional variable remuneration depending on the company's results in the form of bonuses and incentives, as well as a company pension plan worth 8.7% of the respective gross annual salary.

We develop together! People are our priority. From employee appraisals to a wide range of training opportunities, we support our employees on their career path.

Application & contact

Application

Please send your application via our career portal.

RheinEnergie AGParkgürtel 2450823 Cologne

www.rheinenergie.com