Lead Site Reliability Engineer (f/m/x) – Client Access
D.B. Group1 month ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with Engineering, QA, Production Support, and Operations from design through go-live.
- Define monitoring, dashboards, and actionable alerting using Splunk, Kibana, and Geneos.
- Design supportability for high-volume event-driven services, including retries, replay, idempotency, reconciliation, message correlation, queue and backlog monitoring, and capacity controls.
- Create alerts, runbooks, recovery procedures, support-acceptance criteria, and post-release production checks based on expected failure modes.
- Improve unit, component, contract, integration, performance, and targeted end-to-end testing, including rollback and recovery scenarios.
- Lead technical incident and problem analysis and drive sustainable corrective actions.
- Contribute hands-on to implementation, architecture, design, and code reviews across globally distributed teams.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience developing complex distributed systems in Java or Kotlin.
- Proven production support experience with high-volume payment, trading, or financial-messaging platforms.
- Deep knowledge of observability and monitoring, including Splunk, Kibana, Geneos, telemetry design, dashboards, and alerting.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures using Kafka and MQ, including retries, replay, idempotency, and reconciliation.
- Experience with incident management, root-cause analysis, operational readiness, recovery automation, and runbook development.
- Software engineering experience with testing, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Oracle, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Ability to use AI tools productively while applying critical judgment for responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Production Support, and Operations teams.
Benefits
- Mental health consultations and awareness training.
- Health check-ups, vaccination drives, and healthy-living and nutrition advice.
- PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working options including part-time, hybrid working, and job tandem, plus diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
- Pension plans, banking services, a company bicycle, Deutschlandticket, exclusive employee rates, and personalized financial advice.
- The role is available on a full-time or part-time basis in Berlin.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About D.B. Group
D.B. Group is an Italian freight forwarder and logistics provider offering air, ocean, road, and rail transport, customs brokerage, and supply chain management for global shippers. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Montebelluna, Veneto, it is privately held and operates through 79 subsidiaries with a worldwide partner network. The company delivers end-to-end forwarding and integrated logistics services, from consolidation and warehousing to door-to-door deliveries and trade compliance.