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# Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes

- **Company:** Huxley Associates
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Grafana, Technical Debt, Kubernetes, Puppet, Terraform
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.huxley.com/en-gb/job/site-reliability-engineer---kubernetes/4064889

## About the Role

* StrongKubernetes operational experience, including:
 + Node management
 + Kubernetes upgrades
 + Workload debugging
 + Cluster health management
 * Experience with managed Kubernetes platforms (EKS or equivalent) and/or on-premises Kubernetes environments.
 * Experience withobservability tooling such as:
 + Prometheus
 + VictoriaMetrics
 + Grafana
 + Alerting pipelines
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills.
 * Ability to work independently, prioritise effectively, and meet commitments., * Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
 * Puppet or similar configuration management tools.
 * AWS experience.
 * Experience supporting internal developer platforms or infrastructure teams., Be comfortable tackling unfamiliar technologies and challenges by asking the right questions and continuously learning.

## Description

This is a hands-on operational Site Reliability Engineering role focused on keeping the Kubernetes platform healthy, up-to-date, and well-supported.
You will spend most of your time on cluster maintenance, component upgrades, and helping engineering teams successfully run their workloads on the platform. In addition, you may act as a consultant to product teams on Kubernetes best practices and reliability topics., * Plan and execute Kubernetes version upgrades across EKS and on-premises clusters, coordinating with internal teams to minimise disruption.

 * Perform routine maintenance, including add-on upgrades, storage and networking configuration, and upgrades for monitoring, security, and other platform tooling.
 * Monitor cluster health across the fleet and proactively address degradation signals before they become incidents.

Internal Customer Support

 * Act as the first point of contact for engineering teams running workloads on the platform.
 * Triage issues, diagnose failures, and guide teams towards resolution.
 * Help teams understand platform capabilities, quota management, and best practices for running reliable workloads.
 * Evaluate quota requests and usage requirements against platform capacity.
 * Contribute to runbooks and FAQs to reduce recurring support requests.

Toil Reduction & Automation

 * Identify repetitive manual tasks and reduce them through scripting and automation.
 * Flag and address technical debt that increases operational risk or slows down delivery.
 * Partner with the wider platform team on tooling improvements that reduce operational burden across the fleet., * A pure software development role. The focus is operational excellence, platform reliability, and customer support rather than feature development.
 * A solo contributor role. Collaboration, escalation, pairing, and knowledge sharing are essential.
 * A reactive-only role. Proactive maintenance, automation, and continuous improvement are equally important as incident response.


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