Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
Pragmatike5 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain Debian/Ubuntu Linux infrastructure.
- Deploy, manage, scale, upgrade, and secure Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal, virtualized, and on-premises environments.
- Build automation and deployment workflows using Ansible, Bash/Python, PXE boot, Preseed, cloud-init, and Git-based workflows.
- Design and maintain networking architecture, including VLANs, L2/L3 routing, VPNs, and multi-site connectivity.
- Deploy and maintain observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, and Graylog.
- Lead incident response and escalation, improve availability and latency, and define SLOs and SLIs across infrastructure layers.
- Optimize alerting and monitoring pipelines and establish on-call schedules across time zones.
- Develop standard operating procedures for recurring operations and maintenance.
- Coordinate physical maintenance, hardware issues, and data-center operations for Policlouds.
- Manage OpenStack, Proxmox, and VMware virtualization and orchestration layers.
- Contribute to product architecture, resource planning, system quality, and resource utilization improvements.
- Collaborate with development teams and cross-functional stakeholders, including Hivenet, Policloud, and Customer Success 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 operating distributed systems and container orchestration.
- Experience building automation workflows with Ansible, Bash/Python, and Git-based tools.
- Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or Graylog.
- Experience with OpenStack, Proxmox, or VMware virtualization technologies.
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning and MAAS.
- Experience with incident response, escalation procedures, and on-call rotations.
- Experience creating standard operating procedures and operational frameworks from scratch.
- Fluent English and the ability to 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, distributed teams, and SRE frameworks.
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.
- Reliability- and automation-focused technology environment.
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.