Senior Site Reliability Engineer

March 20

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gridX is a company focused on providing innovative solutions for energy management and distributed energy resources. Utilizing their XENON platform, they offer a range of services and products including home energy management, electric vehicle charging, and smart grid operations. gridX enables customers to optimize energy costs and usage through technologies such as grid-friendly control, energy optimization, and peak shaving. The company also provides APIs to build custom digital energy solutions and integrates a wide array of devices for smart energy management. With its emphasis on energy efficiency, sustainability, and smart technology, gridX is at the forefront of the new energy era.

IoT • Renewables • Load management • Energy management • V2G

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

⚡ Energy

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

💰 Series A on 2018-03

📋 Description

• As a cloud infrastructure team, we create the basis for success and ensure scalability - from its production to our own deployment system, which enables us to develop new applications in the shortest possible time and roll them out to our customers. • You are responsible for our critical cloud infrastructure and manage it as code. • You identify potential problems or bottlenecks in advance and contribute your own ideas to make our service platform more resilient and reliable. • You will support or mentor our developers in reliably running their services in production by helping them deploy their applications and interact with various cloud services. • You take care of our internal monitoring for our applications and infrastructure and guide our developers in setting up their own dashboards and alerts. • You manage core tools to support and accelerate our development, e.g. CI/CD, Docker Base Images. • You enforce Cloud Native best practices across the company. • You document everything and maintain our runbooks.

🎯 Requirements

• You have a strong awareness and experience of working with the principles of site reliability engineering • You know how to achieve high availability, scalability and fault tolerance for distributed software in production • You have experience with Kubernetes and know how to reliably run even larger clusters • You are experienced on a senior level in using IaC tools (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, CDKs; we mainly use Terraform) • You have a deep understanding of cloud offerings like AWS. Specifically AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, SNS, IAM, RDS • You have proactive security in mind and follow best practices and official benchmarks • You know what Scratch or Distroless containers are about and why they should be used in production • You have at least 5+ years of experience in at least one modern programming language like (e.g. Go, Python, Java; we mainly use Go) • You know how to increase transparency, optimize dashboards and define alerts by using monitoring solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible & mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU • Vacation: 30 days for your relaxation + 0.5 days Special Leave at the end of the year for the 24th and 31st of December each • Health & Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass as well as offers for company health management & (Mental) Health Care • Personal development: cross-functional coaching, access to e-learning platforms & an annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee • Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits • Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer • Receive a fair monthly contribution to your company pension plan • City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket • Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice • Annual Teamweek: Enjoy an unforgettable teamweek, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories! • We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday • Sabbatical option: take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education