Site Reliability Engineer (m/w/d) Schwerpunkt Observability & Security

Job summary

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a focus on Observability & Security will ensure system transparency, security monitoring, and establish SRE metrics. This role involves implementing SRE-driven security and automation, and acting as a DevSecOps consultant to support other IT teams in secure architecture, deployment, and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or system administration with a strong focus on automation, platform security, and system reliability.
• Practical experience with monitoring and APM tools, ideally Elastic APM and CheckMK.
• Fundamental understanding of container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) and Java-based runtime environments (Quarkus, RedHat EAP).
• Proficiency in version control (Git), automation tools (Ansible), and basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins).
• Good knowledge of at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or Bash) for automating repetitive tasks.
• Proactive approach to taking responsibility and implementing own ideas with the team.
• Team player with experience and analytical skills to enrich the DevOps team.
• Fluent in German.

Responsibilities

• Utilize modern observability tools for performance, availability, and application health monitoring in live operations.
• Detect unauthorized access attempts, performance drops, or platform behavior deviations proactively and automatically.
• Analyze complex dependencies and interactions between containerized applications, identify bottlenecks, and accelerate root cause analysis.
• Support the team in defining and monitoring SLIs and SLOs to ensure system quality.
• Ensure secure and encrypted communication between networked applications and automate secure credential provisioning.
• Define and automate security guardrails at the platform level.
• Design and implement fault-tolerant patterns (e.g., Rate Limiting, Circuit Breaking) and automated recovery processes.
• Advise and support other IT teams on fault-tolerant architecture, secure deployment, and optimal monitoring of new IT systems.

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