Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Job Location: Germany (Remote) Job Type: Fixed Term Contract (12 Months) Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain observability platform component and integrations across Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and streaming telemetry systems. Contribute to architecture and technical design of scalable monitoring solutions running on Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud‑native environments. Implement standardized instrumentation Using OpenTelemetry, SDKs, collectors, exporters and agent across services and infrastructure. Built and Optimise Telemetry pipelines for metrics, Logs, and traces using Prometheus, OTEL collector, Kafka/Streaming pipelines, and time‑series backends. Develop advance PromQL queries, recording rules, and AlertManager logic for complex monitoring scenarios. Create reusable dashboards and visualisation templates using Grafana (and Perses if applicable.) Automate deployments and configuration using Git, GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practises. Troubleshoot and optimise performance across collectors, exporters, storage back‑ends and query layers. Support performance testing, load validation, and reliability analysis of observability components. Collaborate with engineering and SRE teams to onboard services and improve Telemetry coverage across platforms. Document implementations, standards, and operational procedures. Required skills and expertise Strong programming experience in Go, Python, Or Java With focus on backend or platform engineering. Hands‑on expertise with Prometheus ecosystem (Prometheus, Alertmanager, exporters, Pushgateway) And PromQL. Experience implementing OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collectors, processors and pipelines. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, Helm and MicroServices architecture. Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Or Argo CD. Understanding of distributed systems, Performance tuning, Debugging, and profiling techniques. Fimilarity with streaming and messaging systems (example, Kafka or equivalent) and time‑series databases. Experience building or integrating REST/gRPC APIs. Proficiency in Git workflows, Scripting (Bash/Python), And automation frameworks. Understanding of SNMP, exporters, and infrastructure/device telemetry collections. Awareness of sec Security, RBAC, secret management, and compliance requirements in platform environments. #J-18808-Ljbffr Starcom consulting limited