Site Reliability Engineer (m/f/x) at Nitrado
To strengthen our SRE team, we're seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (m/f/x) eager to shape the evolution of GameFabric. GameFabric leads innovation as a game server orchestration platform, while SteelShield delivers advanced DDoS protection tailored for game traffic. If you're passionate about driving progress in the gaming industry, we want you on our team.
permanent remote, hybrid or office full-time
Your mission
- Oversee operations for multiple GameFabric environments, encompassing 50+ Kubernetes clusters alongside a central observability stack.
- Collaborate closely with our developers to engineer scalable solutions from inception through to deployment.
- Automate infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), GitOps practices (FluxCD), and our proprietary Kubernetes operators.
- Refine and optimize our core tech stack across cloud and bare-metal environments.
- Join our on-call rotation alongside the rest of the team to ensure seamless platform operations (once fully onboarded and comfortable).
- Our Tech Stack: Linux | Kubernetes (GKE, RKE2, EKS, AKS, TKE) | Google Cloud | Agones | Terraform | FluxCD | GitHub Actions | Helm | Ansible | Go | PostgreSQL | VictoriaMetrics | Loki | Grafana | Tempo | Pyroscope
Your profile
- You own a degree in the IT field, an IT-related vocational education, or equivalent relevant work experience.
- A rock-solid foundation in Linux with strong fundamentals essential for effective system debugging and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience operating and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
- Proven experience with IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
- Practical programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, or shell scripting). Since we build and maintain custom tooling, experience with Go or writing Kubernetes Controllers/Operators is a strong plus.
- Passionate about automation, always looking for ways to streamline processes and eliminate repetitive tasks.
- A collaborative team player who communicates complex technical topics clearly, listens to feedback, and raises concerns constructively.
- Fluent English communication skills (spoken and written).
Nitrado is the world's leading game server hosting company and with over 20 years of experience in PC, Xbox and PlayStation game server hosting, we know exactly what it takes to provide the best possible gaming experience for our customers.
Well-known games in our portfolio are e.g. ARK, Minecraft, DayZ and Valheim. With our 10 worldwide distributed data centers, we are able to dynamically react to market changes and optimally support our strong growth.
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What we offer
Your benefits at Nitrado.
Healthy Food
Enjoy freshly cooked food every day from our in-house chef.
Remote-Friendly
You work remotely, from your home office or in our offices in Karlsruhe or Berlin.
Social Security
Over 20 years of experience guarantee you a secured workplace.
We take breaks together, talk about private and work related topics and duel at table soccer.
Come as you are
Come to work in the outfit you feel comfortable in.
Team Events
Regular team events and company parties strengthen our team spirit.
And many more...
Free beverages
Good public transport connection
Gaming Room
Personal Development
Company pension plan
Job bike leasing
Modern offices
International working environment
Now it's your turn!
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