> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/1231040-senior-site-reliability-engineer-stackit-control-plane](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/1231040-senior-site-reliability-engineer-stackit-control-plane). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # (Senior) Site Reliability Engineer - STACKIT Control Plane - **Company:** Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG - **Location:** Heilbronn, Germany - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Build Automation, Databases, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Memory Management, PostgreSQL, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Network Control, Performance Tuning, Redis, Reliability Engineering, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, Kubernetes, Production Code, Apache Kafka - **Published:** July 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9640a7a1e8b1d74b ## About the Role * You bring 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with a specific focus on operating large-scale distributed systems in production. * You possess expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes Control Plane internals, including the API Server, Controller Manager, Scheduler, and etcd. * You demonstrate proficiency in Go and write production-grade code to build automation tools, Kubernetes Operators, or glue code that integrates disparate systems. * You hold deep experience with Infrastructure as Code and container infrastructure, alongside proficiency in Linux system internals (kernel tuning, memory management) and networking (TCP/IP, CNI, Load Balancers, eBPF). * You bring experience in operating datastores (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis) and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, NATS) in scalable environments. * You run towards fires to learn from them, you automate yourself out of a job, and you believe that hope is not a strategy. ## Description Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group., * You collaborate closely with development teams to shorten time-to-detect intervals by enhancing our monitoring and alerting infrastructure and ensuring our services adhere to defined SLOs. * Your work is critical in continuously optimizing our time-to-mitigation; you achieve this by creating clear playbooks, designing dashboards for first responders, and ensuring our telemetry data (logs and metrics) is comprehensive. * You act as a reliability consultant to development teams, educating them on reliability patterns and helping them "shift left" to foster a shared responsibility model. * You design and refine development practices, including CI/CD pipelines, to support progressive delivery strategies such as Canary releases and Blue/Green deployments. * You proactively analyze and optimize the scalability of the Control Plane, addressing bottlenecks in distributed consensus, database throughput, and kernel-level networking. * You participate in a compensated on-call rotation, leading incident responses and facilitating blameless post-mortems and Root Cause Analyses. ## Related Videos - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Fullstack developer salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/197-fullstack-developer-salary-in-germany-2023) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [Backend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/196-backend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023) - [Finding Jobs in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/375-finding-jobs-in-germany)