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 VLAN, L2/L3 routing, VPN, and multi-site networking architectures.
- Automate provisioning and operations using Ansible, Bash/Python, Git-based workflows, PXE boot, Preseed, and cloud-init.
- Deploy and maintain Prometheus/Grafana, Loki, ELK, and Graylog observability stacks.
- Lead incident response and escalation activities, improve availability and latency, and optimize monitoring and alerting.
- Define and implement SLOs and SLIs across physical infrastructure, virtualization, platforms, and software services.
- Establish on-call schedules, write Standard Operating Procedures, and coordinate physical maintenance and data-center operations.
- Manage OpenStack, Proxmox, and VMware virtualization and orchestration layers.
- Contribute to architecture, resource planning, reliability practices, 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 with Linux systems administration, particularly Debian and Ubuntu.
- Experience designing complex network architectures and working with distributed systems and container orchestration.
- Experience building and maintaining automation workflows with Ansible, Bash/Python, and Git-based tools.
- Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or Graylog.
- Background with OpenStack, Proxmox, VMware, bare-metal provisioning, and MAAS.
- Experience with incident response, escalation procedures, on-call rotations, and operational documentation.
- Preferred experience with Istio, Linkerd, advanced CNI implementations, Cloudflare APIs, DNS automation, tunnel configurations, GPU infrastructure, security practices, asset management, and distributed teams.
- Fluent English and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced engineering environment are required.
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.