Senior Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who will look after one of the newest propositions in the GfK portfolio supporting our next-generation platform - GfKnewron. If you are excited about cloud engineering (GCP), passionate about all Kubernetes and understand the importance of automation, then the challenge is for you.  

You will

• Work in partnership with our software engineering teams to build and operate the next-generation infrastructure to support the GfK product portfolio. 
• Work extensively with GCP. 
• Collaborate with the product development squads to enable them to test and deploy software rapidly whilst ensuring the highest standards of reliability and security. 
• Automate the build and deployment of infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes & other orchestration technologies in a hybrid-cloud environment. 
• Influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability, cost and high-performance.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, metrics and reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting and create and maintain appropriate backup, restore and redundancy solutions for business-critical data. 

Qualifications

You have

• 7+ years of relevant experience as an SRE/DevOps Engineer 
• Have a background in either Systems Administration or Software Engineering 
• Strong experience with major public Cloud Providers (ideally GCP but this is not a must have)
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes. 
• Strong experience with IaC (Terraform) 
• Strong understanding of GitOps concepts and tools (ideally Flux)
• Excellent knowledge of technical architecture and modern design patterns, including micro-services, serverless functions, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, etc. 
• Ability to set up and support CI/CD pipelines and tooling using Gitlab. 
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language such as Python, Ruby or Go 
• Experience with monitoring, log aggregation and alerting tooling (GCP Logging, Prometheus, Grafana). 

Additional Information

• Exciting work environment that brings people together.
• Use the latest digital technologies.
• Ongoing trainings to support your development.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Great compensation and bonus scheme linked to individual performance and company results.
• Flexible working hours and home office.