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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) m/f/x
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Germany
Experience
Senior · 7+ years
Job description
Site Reliability Engineer responsible for maintaining and managing infrastructure, ensuring production reliability, monitoring, backups, and release support at Makersite. The role is a fixed, permanent position requiring residence in Germany.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Germany
What you'll do
- Maintain and manage new and existing infrastructure, balancing both proactive and reactive maintenance
- Identify technical problems and bottlenecks and collaborate with the engineering team to resolve them efficiently
- Ensure all infrastructure and processes are in compliance with ISO standards and assist in maintaining those certifications
- Work closely with engineering teams to ensure developed tools and applications run smoothly in a production environment
- Oversee and manage all system backups, ensuring Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) are met
- Assist in managing software releases to minimize disruption and maximize uptime
- Participate in an off-duty or pager duty rotation to provide round-the-clock system reliability and support
- Lead postmortems following any system disruptions and help identify ways to prevent future incidents
- Monitor system alerts and respond quickly to maintain system health and maximize uptime
- Participate in planning server capacity, ensuring current and future demands can be met
- Define the Site Reliability Strategy and Execute on it
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or a similar role
- 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles
- Experience supporting/coaching less experienced team members
- Ability in building alerting and observability into all production systems (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch etc.)
- Proven experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (ECS, EC2, etc) or Azure
- Extensive experience using Terraform and Ansible
- Incident management, postmortems, and on-call quality of life experience
- Familiarity with disaster recovery planning and testing
- Strong knowledge of system monitoring tools
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Proven experience managing system backups and understanding of RTO and RPO
- Familiarity with release management processes
- Ability to work in an on-call capacity
- Experience in managing Stakeholders and expectations from Stakeholders
- Experience in dealing with concurring priorities / context switching
- Proficiency in Python
- All successful applicants will need to reside in Germany with legal working permits or residence permits
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
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About Makersite GmbH
Pioneering the future of sustainable product development and digital collaboration
Makersite is a leading platform for product lifecycle management (PLM) whose software enables teams to design, prototype, and manufacture with transparency, efficiency, and responsibility—reducing environmental impact while optimizing performance.
Mission
Empower companies to make smarter, more sustainable decisions across their entire supply chain
Key facts
- Product lifecycle management (PLM) software
- Leading platform for product lifecycle management (PLM)
- Fast-growing, innovative company
- Focus on sustainability and digital transformation of industries
What they value
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Continuous learning
- Sustainability
- Transparency
- Efficiency
- Responsibility