Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Kubernetes (Remote)
Pragmatike4 hours ago
Rome, Italy +4 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain Debian/Ubuntu Linux infrastructure.
- Deploy, manage, scale, upgrade, and harden Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal, virtualized, and on-premises environments.
- Automate provisioning and operations using Ansible, Bash/Python, GitOps workflows, 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 monitoring and alerting pipelines.
- Define SLOs and SLIs, establish on-call schedules, and develop standard operating procedures.
- Coordinate physical maintenance and data-center operations for Policlouds.
- Manage OpenStack, Proxmox, and VMware virtualization and orchestration layers.
- Support architecture development, resource planning, quality improvements, and collaboration with development and customer-facing 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 Linux systems administration experience with Debian and Ubuntu.
- Experience designing complex network architectures and working with distributed systems and container orchestration.
- Experience building automation workflows with Ansible, Bash/Python, and Git-based tools.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or Graylog observability stacks.
- Experience with OpenStack, Proxmox, VMware, bare-metal provisioning, and MAAS.
- Experience with incident response, escalation procedures, and on-call rotations.
- Ability to create operational procedures from scratch and work autonomously in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Preferred experience with Istio, Linkerd, advanced CNI implementations, Cloudflare APIs, DNS automation, tunnel configurations, GPU infrastructure, security practices, IT asset management, and distributed multi-timezone teams.
- Fluent English is mandatory.
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.
- Opportunity to work with a technology stack 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.