Senior Site Reliability Engineer (m/w/d)

Job summary

Impower is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability and operational foundations of their AI-driven ERP platform. This role involves working with Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, observability, and security to ensure scalable, resilient, and secure systems. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems in cloud environments.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems in cloud environments
• Real ownership of non-trivial systems at scale
• Deep, hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including operators, networking, autoscaling, and debugging
• Strong working knowledge of EKS, RDS, ALB, IAM, VPC, S3, and operational realities of running services on AWS
• Solid Terraform experience with disciplined IaC practices
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, Helm, or equivalent declarative deployment tooling
• Security expertise in cloud-native environments: IAM best practices, secrets management, secure network architecture, container and dependency vulnerability scanning, secure SDLC principles
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2)
• Proactively identify risks and contribute to incident response and audit readiness
• Experience building dashboards, defining SLOs, running incidents, and using learning to improve systems
• Comfortable scripting and building tooling in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
• Excellent written and verbal English (C1+)
• Ability to document decisions, write effective runbooks, and clearly explain tradeoffs

Responsibilities

• Own platform reliability end-to-end
• Co-own Kubernetes-based platform on AWS, including ingress, autoscaling, service mesh, config, and secrets
• Ensure platform scales with growth
• Drive CI/CD excellence
• Evolve GitLab, Terraform, ArgoCD/Helm pipelines for faster, safer delivery of Java/Spring Boot and React applications
• Provide self-service capabilities for product teams
• Manage cloud infrastructure
• Design and operate scalable AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS, ALB, IAM, VPC, S3) using Infrastructure as Code
• Maintain strong IaC discipline and clear change management
• Strengthen observability
• Improve Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki setup for SLO definition, fast debugging, and confident service operation
• Lead on security
• Own security posture across infrastructure and application layers (IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, container and dependency scanning, vulnerability management, supply chain security, audit readiness)
• Embed security as a design constraint
• Improve incident response
• Strengthen on-call practices, runbooks, and post-incident learning
• Enable product teams
• Provide tooling, guidance, and self-service capabilities for better operational and deployment practices
• Support broader platform surface, including Temporal workflows, PostgreSQL operations, S3, Estuary CDC pipeline, and AI service infrastructure on GCP/Azure

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