Platform engineer in cloud infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Modern Berlin office

Technical ownership

Professional development

Flexible working

Work-life balance

Fitness and public transport support

Team lunches and events

Job summary

Digital Waffle is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Berlin to own reliability, scalability and performance of our production infrastructure. You will design robust architectures, drive SRE practices and collaborate with software teams to build more reliable services.

The role emphasizes modernising legacy infra with safe, pragmatic approaches, strong observability, and a strong ownership mindset. Hybrid work and a modern Berlin office are available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering or similar roles.
• Hands-on production workloads on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, scalability and performance of production infrastructure.
• Design robust, highly available architectures.
• Investigate and resolve complex infra issues.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Linux systems

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident management

Cloud security

Python

Go

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Описание

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.

Задачи

• 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

Требования

• around 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering or a similar role
• 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
• Будет плюсом: Experience with hybrid/on-premise environments or security and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 would be a bonus

Условия

• 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