Site Reliability Engineer II - AI & Infrastructure (f/m/d)

• Own the reliability and day-to-day operation of multiple internal applications, deployment platforms, and supporting services.

• Lead the investigation and resolution of incidents and deployment failures across cloud services, databases, identity, networking, secrets, and CI/CD systems.

• Drive automation improvements across build, release, deployment, monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, rollback, and runbook processes.

• Implement safe, well-tested code, configuration, infrastructure, and database fixes to restore or improve service reliability.

• Develop proposals for cloud, hosting, database, and runtime migrations, as well as horizontal scaling approaches, supported by appropriate testing and rollback plans.

• Build and maintain clear operational documentation, including runbooks, recovery procedures, incident fixes, and system knowledge that can be reused by other engineers.

• Partner with software engineering, IT, security, identity, and external platform-support stakeholders to plan and execute infrastructure changes safely.

• Provide overflow diagnostic and troubleshooting support for AI workflows and tools, including Langdock, without losing focus on core reliability priorities.

• You take ownership of well-scoped technical work from investigation through testing, deployment, and follow-up.

• You are calm and methodical when responding to live incidents and can diagnose problems across multiple interconnected systems.

• You focus on root-cause resolution rather than repeatedly applying temporary fixes.

• You communicate incidents, trade-offs, risks, and recovery plans clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• You are proactive about identifying reliability risks, automation opportunities, recurring issues, and operational improvements.

• You make independent decisions on tactical fixes and safe configuration changes while seeking appropriate sign-off for architecture, migration, and scaling decisions.

• You document changes and operational knowledge so that other engineers can support systems effectively.

• You ask for help early when risks or dependencies are unclear and keep the Head of IT informed about significant issues and progress.

• Strong experience with Linux, networking, structured troubleshooting, and cloud hosting concepts.

• Experience operating internal applications and deployment platforms in Azure or a comparable cloud environment.

• Practical knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL or an equivalent platform, including safe migration and recovery practices.

• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD tools such as OpenTofu, Terraform, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.

• Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, rollback automation, incident response, and service reliability practices.

• Experience with horizontal scaling, stateless system design, migrations, and reversible change management.

• Scripting and automation skills, together with experience reducing repetitive operational work.

• Familiarity with identity and access management, least-privilege access, secrets management, FE’s internal AI/SaaS stack, and tools such as Langdock.

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