Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer in our dynamic SRE team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our KiwiOS IoT platform and the products built upon it. You will work closely with our software development teams to ensure that the decentralized energy ecosystem remains available to everyone around the clock.

Your tasks:

• Monitoring and Incident Management: You will instrument our services with key metrics to enable continuous monitoring for system malfunctions. In the event of an incident, you will collaborate with development teams to debug issues within Google Cloud and resolve them as quickly as possible.
• Automation and Scalability: You will take our cloud infrastructure to the next level by identifying and automating repetitive tasks. Additionally, you will recommend Google Cloud managed services to development teams and drive their adoption across the company. You will also continuously improve our deployment process, enabling teams to execute simpler and more secure deployments to Kiwigrid’s production environment.
• Security and Compliance: You will help ensure a secure cloud environment for Kiwigrid by integrating tools for vulnerability monitoring and the detection of potentially malicious external activity. You will participate in establishing compliance policies and assist with audits.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: You will help development teams structure their documentation to ensure the technology stack and request flows are clearly understandable. Furthermore, you will introduce SRE best practices to the development teams to foster a high level of standardization.
• Incident Response & On-Call Duty: You will lead incident response activities and participate in the regular on-call rotation.

• Professional experience with cloud infrastructures and IT project implementation
• Enthusiasm for new technologies and a willingness to engage in continuous learning
• Good knowledge of current cloud technologies; experience with Google Cloud (GCP) is desirable
• Very good knowledge of Kubernetes
• Solid programming skills (experience with Java is desirable)
• Experience in incident management
• Ability to work independently, in a highly structured and conscientious manner
• Analytical and conceptual skills combined with a cross-system and process-oriented mindset
• Strong commitment to quality and assertiveness
• Practical experience with agile working methods
• Proactive and clear communication
• Hybrid working model with 1-2 days in the office per week
• Very good written and spoken English skills
• Good written and spoken German skills are desirable

• Permanent employment contract with performance-based pay
• Flexible working hours and various working time models; mobile working options
• Agile working methods; light-filled loft-style offices; collaborative work zones & standing desks; English courses
• Corporate health management; fresh fruit, free beverages, and unlimited specialty coffees
• Joint sports events (e.g., company runs or volleyball); company bike leasing; “sick days” for minor ailments; Urban Sports Club subsidy for fitness
• Public transport pass; employee referral bonus; company pension scheme
• Personal responsibility; regular feedback sessions; dedicated training budgets and on-the-job training
• Sponsored leisure activities (billiards, foosball, table tennis, etc.)
• Opportunity to personalize your own workspace