Site Reliability Engineer Cloud Operations

In this role you will:

• Migrate and modernize production applications on Kubernetes
• Integrate third-party software into our production platforms and make it fit our operational standards
• Work alongside Software and IT Engineers to improve reliability performance and operational readiness
• Design and operate applications on our service mesh platform
• Integrate safe deployment patterns such as canary releases and progressive rollouts
• Define SLOs SLIs and useful operational KPIs then use them to drive improvements
• Improve observability across metrics logs and traces so problems are easier to spot and understand
• Explore and integrate AI tools that can help with troubleshooting incident analysis and remediation
• Test how systems behave under load during failures and when dependencies disappear
• Automate repetitive operational work whenever it makes sense
• Provide Level-3 support and participate in the on-call rotation.

Qualifications :

• At least 3 years of experience in SRE DevOps Platform Engineering or a similar production-focused role
• Solid hands-on experience running production workloads on Kubernetes OpenShift EKS or a similar Kubernetes platform
• Good knowledge of Helm and how to package configure and maintain applications with it
• Experience working with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd or strong Kubernetes networking experience
• A good understanding of service-to-service networking traffic routing mTLS and TLS
• Experience with GitOps and modern deployment strategies such as canary or progressive delivery
• A practical understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs SLOs and error budgets
• Experience with observability and tracing tooling such as Prometheus Grafana Elastic Stack or OpenTelemetry
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals including TCP/IP DNS and load balancing
• Comfortable troubleshooting JVM-based applications in production and able to investigate issues related to heap usage garbage collection or JVM configuration
• Comfortable automating things with Python Go Bash or another programming language
• Experience or strong interest in applying AI to observability incident response or operational automation
• Experience or a strong interest in operating applications that depend on GPU resources or other AI infrastructure
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform Ansible or Puppet.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Argo CD Argo Rollouts or Argo Workflows
• Deeper experience with Istio Linkerd or Envoy-based service mesh platforms
• Experience designing or operating Kubernetes platforms at scale
• Experience running Java or Spring Boot applications in production
• Hands-on experience tuning JVM applications for performance or low-latency workloads
• Experience integrating applications with self-hosted AI platforms such as vLLM
• Experience troubleshooting AI infrastructure integrations including model access GPU availability and NVIDIA MIG configurations.
• Knowledge of Cilium eBPF or other modern Kubernetes networking technologies
• Experience with public cloud or large private cloud environments
• CKAD CKA CKS or equivalent hands-on Kubernetes experience
• A homelab self-hosted services or side projects where you get to experiment break things and build them again.

Who You Are

• You like understanding why systems behave the way they do especially when something goes wrong
• You automate repetitive work instead of accepting it as part of the job
• Youre comfortable working across development infrastructure and operations teams
• You dont mind getting deep into software you didnt build yourself
• Youre curious about AI and where it can genuinely improve day-to-day operations
• You are fluent in English and have good conversational French
• You enjoy keeping up with cloud-native technologies and trying new approaches when they solve a real problem.

Additional Information :

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SQ2

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1