SRE Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

  • Full-time
  • Time Type: Full time

Company Description

AUTODOC is the largest and fastest growing auto parts ecommerce platform in Europe.

Present across 27 countries with around 5,000 employees, AUTODOC generated revenue of over €1.3 billion in 2023, supplying more than 7.4 million active customers with its 5.8 million vehicle parts and accessories for car, truck, and motorcycle brands.

Curious minds, adventurous experts and tech-savvy professionals - one team, one billion euros revenue. Catch the ride!

Job Description

Our Cloud Infrastructure department consists of 4 specialized SRE teams, and we are currently looking for an engineer to join one of them. Each team is dedicated to a specific area, supporting its own group of services and development units.

In this role, you will be part of a team responsible for an area that supports over 200 services running in GCP/GKE. As an SRE, you will balance between maintaining high system availability for your domain and engineering new solutions to enhance our global infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Service Ownership: Act as the primary point of contact for developers within your domain, handling service-related queries in chats and managing SRE-specific tasks.

  • Infrastructure Evolution: Maintain and improve current cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and scalability.

  • Embedded DevOps: Integrate SRE/DevOps best practices into the development lifecycle, from architecture planning to deployment.

  • Innovation & PoC: Research, develop, and implement new infrastructure tools; conduct Proof of Concept (PoC) projects to drive technical excellence.

  • Automation: Partner with the Automation team to build efficient CI/CD pipelines and custom automated workflows.

  • Reliability & Metrics: Participate in developing quality metrics (SLIs/SLOs) and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

  • On-call Support: Join the on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 stability of our mission-critical services.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years as a SRE/DevOps Engineer.

  • Proven experience with containerization and orchestration tools, Kubernetes is the must (GKE is preferred).

  • Knowledge of SRE/DevOps methodologies, such as CI/CD, IaC, gitOps, etc.

  • Knowledge of at least one tool from the gitOps approach (FluxCD is preferred).

  • Experience in Cloud based infrastructures (GCP is preferred).

  • Research and troubleshooting skills.

  • Experience in administering and tuning relational and columnar databases, specifically PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ClickHouse.

  • Experience in deployment and maintenance of distributed high-load systems.

  • Experience in development of fault-tolerance mechanisms - clustering, replication, scaling approaches, etc.

  • Configuration of monitoring solutions (Grafana, VictoriaMetric (operator) are preferred).

  • Good scripting skills (bash / python are preferred).

Will be as a plus:

  • Configuration of logging/tracing solutions (open telemetry stack, ViktoriaLogs, Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo are preferred).

  • Hands-on knowledge of maintaining and scaling Elasticsearch.

  • Proficiency with message brokers and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.

  • Proficiency with GitlabCI.

  • Proficiency in developing, maintaining, and refactoring complex Helm charts.

  • Experience in migrating applications to Kubernetes.

  • Deep understanding of Linux-like OS processes.

  • Experience in implementing security controls in containerized environments.

  • Boundless desire to automate any processes with an emphasis on improving security.

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Spoken English

Additional Information

What do we offer?

  • Stable employment in the fast-growing international company
  • International career in a multicultural environment with lots of opportunities to grow
  • Annual vacation of 28 calendar days and 1 additional day off on your birthday
  • Mental Wellbeing Program – providing you and your immediate family members with free and confidential mental and physical health support services for a wide range of personal and work-related issues
  • Opportunities for advancement, further trainings (over 650 courses on soft and hard skills on our e-learning platform) and coaching
  • Free English and German language classes
  • Flexible working hours and hybrid work
  • Referral Program with attractive incentives
  • Gym in the office and recreation room with games.

 

Join us today and let’s create a success story together!

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