Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Kubernetes (Remote)
Pragmatike4 hours ago
Rome, Italy +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux infrastructure.
- Deploy, manage, scale, upgrade, and secure Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal, virtualized, and on-premises environments.
- Design and maintain network architecture covering VLANs, L2/L3 routing, VPNs, and multi-site connectivity.
- Build automation and deployment workflows using Ansible, Bash/Python, Git, PXE boot, Preseed, and cloud-init.
- Deploy and maintain observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, and Graylog.
- Lead incident response and escalation, improve availability and latency, and optimize monitoring and alerting pipelines.
- Define SLOs and SLIs across physical infrastructure, virtualization platforms, and software services.
- Establish on-call coverage, write standard operating procedures, and coordinate physical maintenance and data-center operations.
- Manage OpenStack, Proxmox, and VMware virtualization and orchestration layers.
- Contribute to architecture, capacity planning, resource utilization, and collaboration with development and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Expert-level hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
- Strong network engineering skills, including VLANs, L2/L3 routing, VPNs, and multi-site connectivity.
- Strong proficiency in Linux systems administration, particularly Debian and Ubuntu.
- Experience designing complex network architectures and building automation workflows with Ansible, Bash/Python, and Git-based tooling.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or Graylog observability stacks.
- 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 and collaborate effectively across distributed teams.
- Preferred experience with Istio, Linkerd, advanced CNI implementations, Cloudflare APIs, DNS automation, tunnels, GPU infrastructure, IT asset management, security practices, and SRE frameworks.
Benefits
- Fully remote work within the EU timezone, CET ±2 hours.
- Flexible hours and an ASAP start date.
- High-impact role with autonomy and ownership.
- Collaborative international engineering team.
- Work on cloud-computing projects focused 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.