STACKIT Platform Services - Site Reliability Engineer (m/f/d)

• Location

  Calle Bergara 13

  8002 Barcelona

• Employment Area

  IT - Development

• Level

  Experienced professionals

• Working Model

  Full-time

• Reference ID

  48363

Schwarz Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication, and Workspace.

Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group.

Your Tasks

• You design and operate the one or the other sovereign cloud services with focus on pure excellence.
• You ensure the reliability, performance, and fault tolerance of the messaging infrastructure by implementing robust disaster recovery and failover strategies and tune operating system configurations for low-latency delivery.
• You are on the forefront of setting standards which allow our Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to be continuously met, ensuring system stability.
• You define best practices for application developers and build a self-service platform that makes it easy for internal teams to independently configure their integrations.
• You conduct regular Chaos Engineering tests and incident response simulations to detect vulnerabilities early and guarantee resilient production services.
• You lead structured post-mortems and root cause analyses for production incidents and implement sustainable corrective measures.

Your Profile

• You have a strong passion for Site Reliability Engineering, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and full automation.
• You bring solid experience with Go, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and automating production environments.
• You are familiar with SRE concepts such as Error Budgets, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, and Chaos Engineering methods.
• You understand the operational requirements of complex platform services (i.e. PubSub, KMS, Secrets Manager, DNS, MailOut) and know how to make them highly available and reliable.
• You enjoy exploring new technologies (e.g., OpenTelemetry) and enthusiastically share your knowledge with the community and team.
• You look beyond dashboards to understand the underlying data structures and how to optimize them for high-cardinality environments.