Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Kubernetes

Company Description We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant growth with an excellent work environment certified by Great Place To Work! About The Client Our client is a leading enterprise software company building highly scalable cloud-native platforms used by organizations around the world. Their engineering teams focus on delivering reliable, secure, and high-performing services while embracing modern DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies. You will join a team responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, and operational excellence of a critical UI service running in production. Contract Duration: Initial contract through the end of 2026, extending the engagement to a total 12-month term based on performance. Job Description About the Role This is a Senior SRE role supporting production reliability for a Kubernetes-based UI service / AI experience framework stack. This is not general infrastructure, and it is not a front-end developer role. The strongest candidates will have production SRE experience across Kubernetes operations, observability, Node.js runtime troubleshooting, JVM / Java service troubleshooting, Splunk, and incident ownership. What You’ll Do Support the deployment, operation, and reliability of production services running on Kubernetes. Monitor service health and investigate production incidents across distributed applications. Participate in on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, and reliability improvements. Troubleshoot application runtime, networking, and service-to-service issues in collaboration with engineering teams. Support CI/CD, GitOps-based deployments, observability, and production monitoring. Work within a client-directed backlog and established priorities. Qualifications Required Qualifications 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Production Engineering, or a closely related role, including strong recent hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes-based production services. 3+ years of hands-on production Kubernetes experience strongly preferred. Kubernetes production operations, including deployment, scaling, rollout / rollback, resource tuning, and service-to-service troubleshooting Strong production incident response experience, including on-call, runbooks, postmortems, and paging hygiene Splunk experience for log aggregation, search, and production troubleshooting Prometheus and Grafana experience, specifically building alert rules and dashboards, not only using existing dashboards CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for containerized deployments, including Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, TCP / HTTP, HTTP/2, and Kubernetes networking Production troubleshooting experience across Node.js and JVM/Java services, with strong depth in at least one runtime environment. Experience may include Node.js heap snapshots, CPU profiling, event-loop and memory analysis, as well as JVM GC log analysis, thread dumps, JVM tuning, and Java service latency investigation. Service-to-service authentication experience, including mTLS, certificate rotation, certificate format conversion, and JWT-based service authentication Additional Information Nice to Have Web Components / Lit experience, to perform first-level debugging of UI-related issues Server-side rendering or isomorphic runtime experience Canary rollout / multi-version production operations Distributed tracing and request-context correlation KEDA or event-driven autoscaling Experience with enterprise platform integration layers What We Offer Competitive salary and laptop Professional development and training opportunities Work with cutting-edge cloud and container technologies Flexible work arrangements and collaborative team environment Impact on organization-wide digital transformation initiatives

Ensure the stability and operational excellence of a critical Kubernetes-based UI service through monitoring and incident response. Support CI/CD pipelines, GitOps deployments, and perform root cause analysis to improve production reliability.

Requires over 5 years of SRE or DevOps experience with at least 3 years of hands-on production Kubernetes operations. Candidates must have strong troubleshooting skills in Node.js or JVM runtimes and experience with Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Competitive salary • Laptop • Professional development and training opportunities • Flexible work arrangements

• KubernetesPreferred
• Node.jsPreferred
• LinuxPreferred
• JavaPreferred

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• Kubernetes
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Splunk
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Helm
• ArgoCD
• Flux
• Node.js
• JVM
• Java
• Linux
• Networking
• mTLS
• JWT
• GitOps

• Software
• Technology
• Engineering
• Consulting
• Data & Analytics

Minimum experience

5+ years

Apply by

Sep 13, 2026

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week

Seniority

Mid-Senior level