Platform & Reliability Engineer

About the role

As a Platform & Reliability Engineer, you will take architectural ownership of shared infrastructure services including API gateways, persistent storage, secrets management, and observability. You will be responsible for identifying and remediating weak points in existing systems, designing on-call processes, and maturing observability practices. This role serves as a technical authority across teams, focusing on reducing single points of failure and improving system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and establish an on-call process and incident runbooks.
• Evaluate and remediate legacy infrastructure components.
• Mature observability practices including distributed tracing, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Provide technical guidance on shared infrastructure services to development teams.
• Document system knowledge and infrastructure processes to ensure team-wide accessibility.

Required skills

• SRE
• Kubernetes
• Ceph
• Longhorn
• Kong
• Nginx Ingress
• Cloudflare
• WAF
• System design
• Load balancing
• Caching
• Sharding
• Replication

Nice to have

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry
• Vault
• Keycloak
• NATS
• Proxmox
• OpenStack

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles
• Hands-on production experience with distributed storage systems
• Professional fluency in English

Certifications

• CKA
• CKS

Benefits

• Flexible hours
• Workation across the EU
• EGYM Wellpass
• Corporate benefits program
• 30 days of vacation
• Volunteer Day
• Professional development opportunities

About the Company

Contabo is a company that values trust, direct communication, and an open feedback culture. They focus on providing space for new ideas and ownership in an innovative tech environment.