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# Senior SRE (Self-hosted)

- **Company:** GitGuardian
- **Location:** Paris, France (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Django Web Framework, Elasticsearch, Github, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Nginx, Octopus Deploy, OpenShift, RabbitMQ, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Istio, Grafana, Agentic-AI, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Rancher, Sentry, Vertica, Kibana, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/gitguardian/jobs/senior-sre-self-hosted_paris_GITGU_77aNg63

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
 * 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or a related field.
 * Significant experience in building and maintaining self-hosted or on-premise Kubernetes solutions.
 * Expertise using Kubernetes in production as a cluster admin, Helm, and Docker.
 * Familiarity with on-premise Kubernetes distributions such as OpenShift or Rancher is a plus.
 * Experience in observability (admin on Grafana).
 * Having deployed applications on Kubernetes clusters, regardless of the underlying cloud provider (AWS, GCP, OVH, etc.).
 * Strong knowledge of at least one CI/CD system (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, GitHub actions).
 * Customer focus (willing to participate in customers calls when needed).
 * Fluency in AI agentic development.
 * French and English fluency.

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

 * Experience with Chainguard Docker images;
 * Affinity for developer efficiency and local environment tools such as k3s.

## Description

You'll join the Self-Hosted team, dedicated to GitGuardian's self-hosted product. This team is at the heart of the delivery for our most prestigious customers, representing 40% of our revenues.

You'll join a team of 3 Senior SREs and an Engineering Manager, working closely with a highly technical Product Manager. Together, the team is responsible for ensuring the development, reliability, security, and quality of our self-hosted services and releases.

Your mission will be to:

 * Design, develop and administer our Self-hosted infrastructure (Adapt the product to different types of customer infra).
 * Ensure high quality, reliability, and security for our self-hosted releases (including incident management and troubleshooting).
 * Enhance the release process (monthly releases) by adding more automation and quality checks.
 * Enhance our releases for observability and troubleshooting.
 * Monitor and enhance our GitLab CI infrastructure.
 * Develop and maintain the infrastructure that serves our developers' test environment (review-apps).
 * Helping engineering teams create and maintain new self-hosted services.
 * Contribute to new product deployments
 * Advocate DevOps best practices to engineering teams, advising them on possible architectures and expertise.
 * Provide customer support (Level 3), eventually attending customer calls twice a month on average.

Technical environment

 * Kubernetes, Helm
 * Docker
 * Nginx/Istio/Gateway API
 * Terraform
 * GitLab CI
 * ArgoCD
 * Review apps (per-branch isolated test environments)
 * Backend: Python, Django
 * Postgresql
 * ClickHouse

What makes this role unique?

The stack is highly technical, owned end-to-end. GitGuardian's roadmap is ambitious, with several new services to launch and infrastructure parts to improve (eg: NHI Governance, customers infrastructure, developers' endpoints scanning). You will have a direct impact for large international customers. You will join a team of experts and passionate engineers, willing to learn and share knowledge., Backend: Python (Django) Go, Rust
Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest
DB: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch (+ Kibana), MongoDB
Observability: Elastic Stack, Sentry, Grafana LGTM, OTEL
Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform
Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio)
Cloud providers: AWS and OVH
Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis