Kubernetes Platform SRE — Scale & Reliability

RWE; Swindon; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH is building a central Site Reliability Engineering capability to own, operate and evolve Kubernetes across RWEST. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes Platform will lead day-to-day operations, design guardrails and enable development teams to ship apps securely and reliably at enterprise scale.

You will establish the central Kubernetes platform service, support platform ownership transitions, and work with cross-functional teams to improve configuration,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience operating AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms at scale.
• Experience designing secure, resilient production environments.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage, security and workload scheduling.
• Experience managing platform lifecycle activities including upgrades and readiness.
• Strong automation mindset with Infrastructure as Code and configuration as code.
• Experience applying software engineering principles to infra and operations.
• Experience designing reusable solutions across multiple teams.
• Strong observability capabilities with metrics, logs, traces and insights.
• Experience integrating security, governance and compliance into solutions.
• Experience supporting production environments, incident response and continuous improvement.
• Good understanding of modern software delivery practices and engineering automation.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve RWEST’s central Amazon EKS platform, including day-2 operations and lifecycle management.
• Provide a secure, self-service Kubernetes platform with automated guardrails for development teams.
• Contribute to platform standards across configuration, monitoring, networking, security and lifecycle management.
• Support a 24x7 operational model for Kubernetes and related services.
• Build and maintain automation, Infrastructure as Code and reusable platform patterns.
• Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting and visibility.
• Drive security, governance and automated controls.
• Collaborate with development squads to onboard and adopt the central platform.
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis and continuous platform improvement.
• Document standards and establish the central SRE Platform Team as owner for shared services.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Cloud-native

Observability

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Security

Incident response

Networking

Reliability

Collaboration

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Azure DevOps

JFrog

Elastic

Job description

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH is building a central Site Reliability Engineering capability to own, operate and evolve Kubernetes across RWEST. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes Platform will lead day-to-day operations, design guardrails and enable development teams to ship apps securely and reliably at enterprise scale.

You will establish the central Kubernetes platform service, support platform ownership transitions, and work with cross-functional teams to improve configuration,