Site Reliability Engineer; f​/m​/d

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Engineer to complement our Deployment Operations Team. In this role, you will build, improve and manage our automations and deployment infrastructure, to ensure the reliability, resilience, availability and observability of our product.

Join us at Wire, the leading end-to-end encrypted communication platform driving secure collaboration for businesses, critical infrastructure, and governments. We prioritise privacy as a fundamental right, providing organisations across industries with the most secure communication experience possible. Our cutting-edge encryption technology and robust security measures have made us a trusted partner in the technology, finance, healthcare, and government sectors. If you're driven by the mission to redefine secure communication and want to be part of an innovative and dynamic team, join us ether, we'll build a world where privacy and security are the foundation of modern communication.

Employment Type:

Permanent

Role:
Site Reliability Engineer

Previous working experience: 5+ years in the Networking / SRE / Platform Engineering field

Working hours:

40hrs/week

Working

Location:

Remote EU/Berlin

Reports to:

Senior Director, Services Delivery Engineering

Desired start date:
As soon as possible

Be ready to play a key role in our Deployment Operations team. You will work closely with the Cloud, Infrastructure & Operations team and other teams on a regular basis.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Deploy and run our Backend services in customer environments on Kubernetes.

Support our customers with operating our backend services on-premise (incl. air-gapped) and deploy on-prem-like staging environments on VMs/Bare-metal platforms for our internal QA processes

Automate our infrastructure deployments and management with IaC (using Kubernetes, Terraform, Nix, Ansible, Concourse, Git Hub Actions and others)

Ensure services are up and running for our customers 24/7

Work on Open Source code, contribute to various upstream projects

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

5+ years of professional experience in Operations, Networking, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles

Proven track record of managing Deployments on and of Kubernetes based Platforms using Infrastructure as Code

Passionate about building, documenting, and debugging distributed and scalable systems

Strong Linux background, including the ability to analyse and troubleshoot OS-level and networking issues

Experience in automating containerized builds and deployments

Strong programming skills in at least one of the following programming languages:

Haskell, Rust, C, Java, Go

Hands-on experience with most of the following:
Kubernetes (Operators), Terraform, Helm, Nix, Ansible, Systemd.

Have worked with many different virtualization and containerization platforms, including at least Docker, KVM, LXC

Have worked with and configured networking devices from more than one major manufacturer.

Have a proven track record of working with Open Source / Free Software communities.

Experience managing observability and monitoring with e.g. Prometheus, Loki, Grafana

Experience debugging network issues using packet capture tools

Has a Solid understanding of modern software-development lifecycle methodologies (Agile, Dev Ops, Git Ops, etc.).

Experience managing Cassandra, Elastic Search, Redis, Postgres, or Rabbit

MQ is a plus

Interest in statically-typed functional programming languages is a plus

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Fluency in English is required; fluency in either German and/or French is a valued additional qualification

Join a market-proven (>1,000 customers) company and drive Wire to become the worldwide market leader.

We're not only developing the future of secured collaboration platforms but also investing in our development:
Every new team member gets a yearly education budget granted and can benefit from a holistic cafeteria system to strengthen personal capabilities.

With an Urban Sports Club subscription, we will ensure that our employees…