Remote Senior SRE: Cloud, Kubernetes & Observability Lead

Nordhealth; Braga; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordhealth is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our remote-first team. You will design and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, operate Kubernetes clusters, and advance our observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

You will automate tasks with Python, improve CI/CD pipelines, and help build an Internal Developer Platform for self-service tooling. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Terraform/Kubernetes skills, and experience with

Qualifications

• Ideally 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability, Platform Engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Expert in Infrastructure-as-Code, especially with Terraform.
• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including Helm, Kustomize, operators, and cluster-level debugging.
• Strong understanding of observability principles and tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Proficient in Python for scripting, automation, and tooling. Experience with Django for database migrations is also highly valued
• Practical experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Octopus Deploy, ArgoCD, or similar).
• Experience building or supporting Internal Developer Platforms or developer self-service tools.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure); AWS preferred.
• Comfortable in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters and associated tooling to support highly available, scalable services.
• Help shape and evolve our observability maturity (metrics, tracing, logging) to improve system insight and reliability, including monitoring and alerting
• Automate operational tasks and build scalable tooling in Python to reduce toil and accelerate development.
• Drive CI/CD pipeline improvements and adoption, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure software delivery.
• Lead the design and implementation of our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to empower product and engineering teams with self-service capabilities.
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Participate in and improve the incident response process, including on-call rotations and postmortems.

Skills

5+ years SRE/DevOps

Python scripting

Remote-first collaboration

Strong opinions, open to change

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

Operators

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Octopus Deploy

ArgoCD

Django

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Nordhealth is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our remote-first team. You will design and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, operate Kubernetes clusters, and advance our observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

You will automate tasks with Python, improve CI/CD pipelines, and help build an Internal Developer Platform for self-service tooling. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Terraform/Kubernetes skills, and experience with