DevOps Engineer

Digital Waffle; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Digital Waffle in Berlin is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve our production infrastructure. The role combines hands-on engineering with shaping reliability strategies across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments.

You'll drive observability, IaC, and CI/CD improvements, partner with software engineers, implement SRE best practices, and mentor the team while maintaining a strong focus on security and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Around 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering or similar.
• Hands-on experience running production workloads on cloud platforms.
• Strong Linux and distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Strong CI/CD experience.
• Practical Kubernetes and container experience.
• Experience building monitoring and observability.
• Solid understanding of SRE principles, not just the job title.
• Experience handling incidents and post-mortems.
• Ability to modernise legacy infrastructure thoughtfully.
• Understanding of cloud security and cost optimisation.
• Programming experience in Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, scalability and performance of production infrastructure.
• Design robust, highly available and secure architectures.
• Investigate complex issues and drive them to resolution.
• Embed SRE practices: SLIs, SLOs, incident management, post-mortems.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop a strong observability strategy across monitoring, logging and alerting.
• Automate operational processes and reduce manual work.
• Modernise legacy infrastructure thoughtfully without risk.
• Collaborate with software engineers to build reliable services.
• Share knowledge and raise the technical bar across the team.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Linux & distributed systems

CI/CD

SRE principles

Incident management

Python/Go

Cost optimisation

Security awareness

Hybrid/on-prem experience

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Senior Site Reliability (SRE)/DevOps Engineer

Berlin / Hybrid | Full-time

Build, improve and own the infrastructure behind a growing technology business.

We’re partnering with an established software company that is entering an exciting period of technical growth.

They’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who wants more than simply keeping production running. This is a role for someone who enjoys getting to the root of difficult infrastructure problems, improving systems properly and having a genuine influence on how technology is built and operated.

You’ll take ownership of a predominantly cloud-based infrastructure environment, working across cloud, hosted and on-premise systems while helping drive the transition towards a more modern, scalable and cloud-native platform.

There’s plenty to get your teeth into - from reliability and observability to automation, infrastructure as code and modernising existing systems.

The role:

You’ll have a high level of ownership and autonomy, with the opportunity to make a visible impact across the engineering organisation.

Your work will include:

• Owning the reliability, scalability and performance of production infrastructure
• Designing and implementing robust, highly available and secure architectures
• Investigating complex infrastructure and production issues and driving them through to resolution
• Introducing and embedding SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, incident management and post-mortems
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
• Developing a strong observability strategy across monitoring, logging and alerting
• Automating operational processes and eliminating unnecessary manual work
• Helping modernise legacy infrastructure without introducing unnecessary risk
• Working closely with software engineers to build more reliable and resilient services
• Sharing your experience, challenging existing approaches and helping raise the technical bar across the team

The ideal candidate:

We're looking for someone with around 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering or a similar role.

You'll ideally have:

• Strong hands-on experience running production workloads on cloud platforms
• A solid understanding of Linux and distributed systems
• Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code tool
• Strong CI/CD experience
• Practical Kubernetes and container experience
• Experience building meaningful monitoring and observability
• A genuine understanding of SRE principles rather than simply the job title
• Experience dealing with incidents and improving systems following them
• The ability to modernise older infrastructure thoughtfully and pragmatically
• An understanding of cloud security and cost optimisation
• Programming experience with Python, Go or a similar language

Experience with hybrid/on-premise environments or security and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 would be a bonus.

In return, you’ll get:

This isn't a position where you'll simply inherit a perfectly polished platform and spend your time maintaining it. You'll be joining at a point where there is real scope to improve things.

You'll have the freedom to question how things are currently done, introduce better approaches and work alongside experienced engineers to shape the future infrastructure environment.

In return, you'll get:

• Basic salary of up to €90k (depending on experience)
• Hybrid working and a modern Berlin office
• Genuine technical ownership and autonomy
• The opportunity to influence infrastructure and engineering decisions
• Plenty of scope for professional development
• Flexible working and a strong focus on work-life balance
• Support towards fitness and public transport
• Regular team lunches, breakfasts and social events
• Team events and company celebrations

If you're an experienced SRE, Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer who enjoys solving difficult problems, improving reliability and having a genuine say in how infrastructure evolves, this is a role worth exploring.