Senior Site Reliability Engineer (all genders)

How you can contribute to gridX

Do stuff that matters - Become a part of gridX and contribute your own part to digitalise the energy industry with us and thus make renewable energies accessible and affordable everywhere #getshitdone

Our tools, most of which were developed in Go, make everyday life easier for other internal teams working with gridBox.

• You are responsible for our critical cloud infrastructure and manage it as code
• You want to take responsibility and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure of gridX
• You identify potential problems or bottlenecks in advance and contribute your own ideas to make our service platform more resilient and reliable
• You understand the value of a "service ownership" culture
• You will support or mentor our developers in reliably running their services in production by helping them deploy their applications and interact with various cloud services
• You take care of our internal monitoring for our applications and infrastructure and guide our developers in setting up their own dashboards and alerts
• You manage core tools to support and accelerate our development, e.g. CI/CD, Docker Base Images
• You enforce Cloud Native best practices across the company
• You document everything and maintain our runbooks

• You have a strong awareness and experience of working with the principles of site reliability engineering
• You know how to achieve high availability, scalability and fault tolerance for distributed software in production
• You have experience with Kubernetes and know how to reliably run even larger clusters
• You are experienced on a senior level in using IaC tools (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, CDKs; we mainly use Terraform
• You have a deep understanding of cloud offerings like AWS. Specifically AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, SNS, IAM, RDS
• You have proactive security in mind and follow best practices and official benchmarks
• You know what Scratch or Distroless containers are about and why they should be used in production
• You have at least 5+ years of experience in at least one modern programming language like (e.g. Go, Python, Java; we mainly use Go)
• You know how to increase transparency, optimize dashboards and define alerts by using monitoring solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana

• Flexible & mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU
• Vacation: 30 days for your relaxation + 0.5 days Special Leave at the end of the year for the 24th and 31st of December each
• Health & Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass as well as offers for company health management & (Mental) Health Care
• Personal development: cross-functional coaching, access to e-learning platforms & an annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee
• Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits
• Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer
• Receive a fair monthly contribution to your company pension plan
• City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket
• Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice
• Annual Teamweek: Enjoy an unforgettable teamweek, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories!
• Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event
• We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday
• Sabbatical option: take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education
• Our benefits differ for 100% remote employment!