Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Kubernetes (Remote)
Pragmatike4 hours ago
Rome, Italy +4 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain Debian/Ubuntu infrastructure and production Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal, virtualized, and on-prem environments.
- Manage the full Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including upgrades, node pools, networking, storage, and security hardening.
- Build provisioning and deployment automation using Ansible, Bash/Python, Git, PXE boot, Preseed, and cloud-init.
- Design and maintain VLAN, L2/L3 routing, VPN, and multi-site networking architecture.
- Deploy and maintain Prometheus/Grafana, Loki, ELK, and Graylog observability stacks.
- Lead incident response and escalation, improve availability and latency, and optimize alerting and monitoring pipelines.
- Define SLOs and SLIs, establish on-call schedules, and develop standard operating procedures.
- Manage OpenStack, Proxmox, and VMware virtualization layers and coordinate physical maintenance and data-center operations.
- Contribute to product architecture, resource planning, capacity optimization, and collaboration with development and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Expert-level hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
- Strong network engineering skills covering VLANs, L2/L3 routing, VPNs, and multi-site connectivity.
- Strong proficiency with Linux systems administration, particularly Debian and Ubuntu.
- Experience building automation workflows with Ansible, Bash/Python, and Git-based processes.
- Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or Graylog.
- Experience with OpenStack, Proxmox, VMware, bare-metal provisioning, and MAAS.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and container orchestration.
- Experience with incident response, escalation procedures, on-call rotations, and developing operational procedures.
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Fluent English is mandatory.
- Preferred experience includes Istio or Linkerd, advanced CNI implementations, Cloudflare APIs, DNS automation, tunnel configurations, GPU infrastructure, security practices, IT asset management, and multi-timezone operations.
Benefits
- Fully remote work within the EU timezone, CET ±2 hours, with flexible hours.
- ASAP start date.
- High-impact role with autonomy and ownership.
- Collaborative international engineering team.
- Work on cloud computing projects with a strong focus on reliability and automation.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Pragmatike
Pragmatike is a Paris-based IT services and recruiting firm connecting remote-first companies with software engineers and tech specialists worldwide. Founded in 2022, it places contractors or full-time hires and staffs teams to complete projects for startups and scaleups. The private partnership offers access to a large network of 50,000+ specialists across 60+ countries.