Site Reliability Engineer
Key facts about position
Project ID
Start Date
By agreement
Contract Type
Freelance
Salary
2.500 - 4.500 EUR/month
Short description
We are looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support and enhance the reliability, observability, and automation of our AWS-based big data platform. You’ll work with technologies like OpenSearch, Flink, Kafka, Iceberg, and EKS to ensure stability and scalability
Job description
• Refine and extend observability practices using CloudWatch, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry
• Design and automate custom alerts to ensure actionable notifications
• Create CI/CD workflows and update playbooks in GitLab
• Document system operations including runbooks and disaster recovery steps
• Reduce false alerts by tuning thresholds and adopting dynamic alerting
• Implement and manage regular manual health checks and operational routines
Benefits
• Membership in APM.Digital club - become APM Expert
• Beer box for each APM Expert
• 100% work from home
• Multisport card
• Flexible working hours
• Tax and social counseling for freelancers
• Work with the most modern tools on the market in all areas
• Young team, frequent team building
Requirements
• 2+ years of experience as an SRE or DevOps engineer in a data-heavy environment
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch)
• Familiarity with big data technologies like Apache Flink, Kafka/MSK, OpenSearch, Iceberg
• Experience managing services on Amazon EKS, S3, and EMR
• Proficiency in GitLab CI/CD or similar pipeline tools
• Strong scripting and automation mindset
• Ability to document operational procedures and recovery strategies
• Proactive, structured, and reliability-oriented thinking
The position is suitable for candidates with education
university I. degree
university II. degree
university III. degree
education in the field of IT I. degree
Language skills
Slovak or Czech - must be
English Language - upper intermediate (B2)
Number of years of experience
Minimum of 2+ years of experience
Information concerning the recruitment process
• We will give feedback to all candidates invited to the interview


