Senior Systems Engineer

SeedtagAd tech

Remote contracts available in Spain, Italy, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, France, and Germany.Full-TimeSenior

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Experience: Minimum of 4 years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Platform/Cloud Engineering roles
Required Skills: PythonGCPKafkaKubernetesGoGrafanaTerraformGitHub Actions

Have at least 4 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform, or Cloud Engineering roles.
Bring strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
Have deep hands-on knowledge of GCP or an equivalent hyperscaler, including networking, IAM, GKE, CloudSQL, and GCS.
Have solid production Kubernetes experience, including cluster lifecycle and upgrades, autoscaling, node pool tuning, and workload identity.
Have strong Terraform experience and experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions.
Have proven on-call and incident management experience, including root-cause analysis and blameless postmortems.
Have experience with Prometheus-compatible observability stacks, alerting design, and SLI/SLO practices.
Have working knowledge of cloud security practices, including secrets management, vulnerability remediation, hardening, and least privilege.
Have experience with Kanban or Scrum and managing multiple concurrent projects.
Have experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka or Redpanda, or stateful systems such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, or Aerospike.
Experience with Terraform Cloud, Cloudflare, compliance frameworks, FinOps, capacity planning, or LLM-based agents and automations is also relevant.

Collaborate with engineering teams to set platform direction and provide operational support.
Design, build, and operate the internal developer platform, including GKE, networking, IAM, CI/CD, and GitOps.
Maintain the reliability, security, and compliance of cloud foundations, including logging, vulnerability and secrets management, hardening, and backup and restore.
Participate in the Platform on-call rotation, lead incident response, and write blameless postmortems.
Operate and evolve streaming and data infrastructure, including Redpanda and self-hosted databases.
Own the observability stack, address scalability issues, and define SLIs, SLOs, and a service maturity model with engineering teams.
Drive FinOps activities such as capacity planning, right-sizing, quota management, and cost anomaly detection.
Replace ticket-based processes with self-service tools, golden paths, and reusable CI/CD workflows; maintain documentation and runbooks.
Build and operate AI agents and automations, define MCP integrations, and contribute to AI governance with Security.
Share knowledge, review peers’ work, and provide feedback and guidance to the Platform Engineering team.

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