IT Site Reliability Engineer - SRE - Munich

Contract: IT Cloud Site Reliability Engineer
Start Date: August/September 2025
Duration: 12 months
Location: On site in Munich, Germany
Rate: €525 - €575 per day (Freelance deliverable based contract)
Languages: English (Mandatory) - Preference also for German and/or French
Reference: 19226

Contract project for experienced IT Cloud Site Reliability Engineers to provide Hardware and Software deployment and hosting services around Google Cloud. Excellent customer/client facing skills required.

STRONG KUBERNETES AND Linux REQUIRED. Other technologies are nice to have.

MUST be a NATIONAL of an NATO Country (Not UK/USA/Australia/NZ or Canada) to complete background checks.

• Responsible for deployment, reset, management hosting and configuration of systems as needed to maintain systems availability.
• Assess and resolve issues and provide solutions covering full portfolio across design, scalability, efficiency and reliability.
• Perform day to day troubleshooting and resolution of Infrastructure issues (Network, Storage, Servers,OS, Kubernetes, etc.) where identified
• Deployment and Management: You will help customers deploy and manage Google systems infrastructure and services.
• Security: Ensuring the security of systems deployments, including implementing security policies, monitoring, and incident response.
• Support: Providing technical support and troubleshooting for Cloud deployments.
• Compliance: Ensuring compliance with relevant security standards and regulations.
• Specialised Skills: Experience in areas like Kubernetes, networking, security, and cloud operations.

You will have strong technical skills with a number of the following technologies covering both H/W and S/W along with good personal communication skills:

Kubernetes:

• Architecture of a Kubernetes Cluster (controller, scheduler, kubelet, static pods, kube-Proxy, deployments, daemon-sets, stateful-sets etc.)- understanding of the CSI and the CNI
• Efficiency in the navigation of a Kubernetes resources (kubectl, k9s) & understanding of the extensibility of Kubernetes through Custom Resources.
• Must have experience with IAM.

Networking Basics:

• Switching, VLANS, subnetting, network t-shoot (dump, and analysys)
• IP Addressing, routing
• common L7 protocols: DHCP, DNS, TLS
• efficiency setting IP interfaces, routes on a Linux machine
• efficiency with Linux networking tools (IP, tcpdump, dig, netstat, etc.)
• OOB interfaces - serial console.

Istio (Service Mesh) Basics:

• familiarity with the main concepts of a Service Mesh
• high level understanding of Envoy Proxy functionality

PKI:

• understanding of SSL Certificates, Root CA, Intermediate CA, CSR, renewing procedures.
• efficiency with openssl cli tool.

Linux:

• Deep knowledge of Linux (OS management, network administrator tasks, troubleshooting)
• understanding of Booting sequence (PXE boot)
• process management and systemd, journalctl
• Linux containers and namespaces
• Proficiency use of bash, vim, tmux, ssh
• Bash or python Scripting

Hardware:

• Proficiency work with ILO, and OOB interfaces, cabling.

Windows:

• Active Directory, ADFS, Hyper-V, DSC, GPOs.

Networking Advanced:

• Familiarity with Cisco Switches console & familiarity with overlays VxLANs (eVPN), VRFs.
• Familiarity with routing protocols: OSPF, LLDP, BGP

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