Site Reliability Engineering Architect

Overview

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Architect – Munich (Remote/Hybrid)

I am partnered with a global consulting organisation that is expanding its engineering leadership team in Germany. They are seeking an experienced SRE Architect to define and drive the long-term reliability, scalability, and performance strategy across complex, cloud-native systems. This is a senior architectural role with wide influence across engineering, combining deep technical expertise with leadership. You will set standards, frameworks, and practices that enable teams to deliver world-class services at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Strategy – Design highly scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure on leading cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Reliability Frameworks – Define and govern SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across engineering teams.
• Observability – Lead observability design for metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting.
• Automation & IaC – Champion Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) for secure, repeatable provisioning.
• Resilience & Recovery – Develop disaster recovery strategies, resilience patterns, and chaos engineering practices.
• Leadership & Mentoring – Act as a thought leader, mentoring engineers and embedding reliability best practices across the organisation.
• Incident Evolution – Analyse major incidents, drive systemic improvements, and evolve incident management culture.

Key Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering, including 5+ years in senior SRE/architecture roles.
• Expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and microservices at scale.
• Proven skills in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).
• Solid background in observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and high-availability design patterns.

Nice-to-Haves

• Professional cloud certifications.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies
• DevSecOps/security best practices.
• Experience leading large-scale tech transformations.

If this sounds like something you’d thrive in—or even if you’re just curious—I’d love to chat and tell you more.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting