Remote Site Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes & CloudOps

Sporty Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Quarterly performance bonuses

28 days paid annual leave

Core hours 10am–3pm in local time zone

Referral bonuses

Top-of-the-line equipment

Annual company retreats

Job summary

Sporty Group is seeking an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to join a remote-first team. You will drive Kubernetes/EKS operations, implement GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm), and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform on AWS.

You will own on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident follow-ups, while mentoring junior engineers and guiding rapid deployments to new countries. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and cost optimization across multi-country deployments,

Qualifications

• 3+ years DevOps / SRE / platform engineering experience.
• Must be based in Europe.
• Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge including AWS EKS and GitOps with ArgoCD and Helm.
• IaC with Terraform.
• Scripting with Bash, Python, or Golang; Rust a plus.
• Observability stacks: Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, OpenTelemetry.
• RUM: Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation.
• On-call and incident response experience with post-mortems.
• Design alert frameworks to minimize noise and alert fatigue.
• Define SLIs and SLOs for reliability.
• Familiarity with service mesh concepts (Cilium).
• Networking knowledge: TCP/IP, HTTP.
• High availability for high-traffic environments.
• Caching: CDN, Redis, Memcached.
• Troubleshooting Linux and JVM optimization.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals.
• Improve infrastructure and processes across deployed countries and prepare for future deployments.
• Improve Kubernetes platform stability and efficiency, optimize resources, reduce costs, and GitOps-first provisioning.
• Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling, alerting pipelines, and Grafana dashboards.
• Own weekend on-call operations, triage production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive post-incident reviews.
• Design and manage alert pipelines to ensure actionable signals and prevent alert fatigue.
• Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs for critical services to drive reliability improvements.
• Take ownership of cloud operation activities.
• Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits and perform internal security sweeps.
• Aid in reconfiguring architecture for rapid deployments to new countries.
• Mentor less experienced team members.

Skills

DevOps / SRE / platform engineering

Kubernetes

EKS

GitOps

ArgoCD

Helm

Terraform

Bash

Python

Golang

Rust

Prometheus

Loki

Tempo

Pyroscope

OpenTelemetry

Grafana Faro

Redis

Memcached

Nginx

Kong

Cilium

HTTP

Networking

Incident response

On-call

Troubleshooting Linux

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Sporty Group is seeking an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to join a remote-first team. You will drive Kubernetes/EKS operations, implement GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm), and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform on AWS.

You will own on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident follow-ups, while mentoring junior engineers and guiding rapid deployments to new countries. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and cost optimization across multi-country deployments,