Site Reliability Engineer (m / f / d)

At our company, it’s all about #OneTeam! Join gridscale and help shape the future of the cloud together with OVH.

As a leading tech company, we’ve been working for over two decades to reduce our environmental footprint — with innovative solutions and an open cloud designed to be sustainable from the ground up : #SustainableByDesign.

As Platform team, we operate the central API infrastructure for our edge locations and provide the developer tools that our teams need. Are you passionate about multi-site cloud environments and edge technologies? Then you've come to the right place.

Our Tech Stack 🚀

• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Prometheus
• FluxCD
• Grafana
• Linux
• OpenStack
• Baremetal

Your Role💻

As a Senior Platform Engineer / SRE, you'll be part of a team responsible for our central API stack at the edge locations. You'll work on the conception, automation, and operation of our platform and drive continuous improvements. We're looking for someone who is comfortable in a security-oriented environment with a high degree of automation (GitOps). While there is a certain focus on Observability, as a Senior, you're able to actively shape the focus of your role based on your strengths and interests. You are used to maintaining an overview in ambiguous situations, analyzing systems, and making well-founded decisions based on this analysis.

Your Tasks

Develop and maintain our Infrastructure as Code using tools like Ansible and Terraform.

Drive the ongoing development of our Kubernetes stack and implement GitOps workflows (e.g., with FluxCD)

Develop and operate Observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) and serve as a go-to person and mentor for other teams

Actively participate in system analysis and derive improvements, even when initial requirements are unclear

Participate in an on-call rotation.

What we offer you💼

The opportunity to create real value using cutting-edge technologies

Exciting daily challenges and a steep learning curve

Locations across Germany : Choose freely between Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, or Saarbrücken – our team regularly meets at the Cologne office for team events

Flexible working hours that you can arrange individually

An open ear and space for your own ideas and experiments

A personal budget and additional vacation days for trainings, courses, and conferences that you can allocate as you wish

An attractive, fair salary and your preferred hardware

A Pluxee shopping card worth €50 net per month

27 vacation days aren’t enough? We guarantee an additional 20 days of unpaid leave as well as the possibility of working remotely from abroad

Your professional experience is more important to us than your formal education.

You have several years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or SRE.

Your technical skills : You have experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform), GitOps (FluxCD), Kubernetes, OpenStack, and monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Mimir, Loki, Grafana, Tempo)

You have experience working in security-critical environments and understand the associated requirements

You are comfortable with working in a structured corporate environment (no start-up)

You are able to quickly familiarize yourself with new systems and develop solutions independently

You have strong communication skills and enjoy sharing your knowledge

You speak fluent English; German is not a must