Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer
On-siteMadrid, Madrid, Spain
Job Summary
Own and operate large-scale, global production environments across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Actively monitor, investigate, and resolve incidents triggered by automated alerting systems. Drive end-to-end troubleshooting across complex, distributed systems with high context switching. Design, deploy, and improve monitoring and observability systems using Prometheus and Grafana. Collaborate with internal teams to ensure system reliability and performance. Work hands-on with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows. Develop and maintain automation and tooling primarily in Python. Gain deep understanding of system architecture and interconnected services. Contribute to a culture of operational excellence in a high-scale, high-availability environment. Champion asynchronous communication, documentation, and tooling standards for fully distributed teams. Daytime hours (12:00–20:00 CET/CEST) with occasional weekend rotation.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in SRE roles in production environments at scale
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform
- Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (GCP or AWS required)
- Experience building and configuring monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
- Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps tools (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Flux)
- Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation
- Proven success in a fully remote or distributed team environment, demonstrating strong self-management and time organization
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a passion for incident handling
- Ability to work in fast-paced environments with high context switching
- Highly responsive, proactive, and ownership-driven
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Curious mindset and eagerness to learn
- Must be able to work daytime hours (12:00–20:00 CET/CEST, based on candidate location and team coverage needs)
- Must be available for occasional weekends and holidays (rotation-based)
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