Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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ICEO - Venture Builder .

Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Remote

Shape the reliability experience of an always‑on crypto platform delivering seamless service across North America and Europe.

As an SRE, you’ll be leading the charge in designing active‑active failover, cross‑region routing, and distributed services that are resilient to cloud outages and geopolitical quirks. This is real‑world chaos engineering at a global scale. You’ll lead the creation of a region‑aware CI / CD pipeline with canary deployments, automated rollbacks, and feature flags tailored per continent.

Join us remotely; you can be located anywhere in Europe within the

CET / CEST time zones . The position is

100% remote

and

full‑time .

About us : ZND is the simple gateway to digital finance, already trusted by thousands of users who have moved over €30+ million through the platform. Fueled by a token raise, we’re rolling out an AI chat assistant for every action and instant credit line on your digital assets. Our bold vision is to be the place where anyone can trade, earn, ask, and borrow in seconds – crypto made effortless.

What you will be doing :

Set and drive SRE strategy

– translate business goals into quarterly reliability targets, track progress, and adjust course as needed.

Own GCP / GKE architecture

– design, implement, and maintain secure, low‑latency, highly available clusters across regions.

Automate reliability

– build self‑healing, auto‑scaling, and automated incident‑response workflows that minimise manual toil.

Embed high availability

– partner with engineers and product to ship fault‑tolerant Node.js / JVM services and predictable releases.

Manage SLIs, and error budgets

– define, monitor, report, and continuously improve service reliability metrics.

Execute chaos engineering

– plan and run automated fault‑injection (e.g., Chaos Mesh) to validate resilience before customers are affected.

Lead incidents

– coordinate response, run blameless post‑mortems, and ensure corrective actions are prioritised and implemented.

Capacity and cost planning

– forecast growth, right‑size resources, and optimise spend without sacrificing performance.

Document and share knowledge

– create clear architecture diagrams, runbooks, and playbooks to keep the organisation unblocked.

Mentor and influence

– champion SRE and DevOps best practices.

Engage in team rituals

– contribute to daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, and roadmap reviews to keep reliability work aligned with product goals.

What do you need :

6+ years in DevOps / SRE with full platform ownership and risk‑based decision making.

Prior experience in fintech or crypto.

Kubernetes and Helm in daily use, Docker containerisation, CI / CD pipelines and version control.

Linux administration on Debian / Ubuntu; strong networking skills covering HTTP(S), DNS, TCP / IP, SSH, firewalls, proxies, load balancers.

Observability stack : Prometheus, Grafana.

Production experience with Kafka, Redis, Nginx.

Hands‑on cloud work in GCP, AWS or Azure, including HA / DR design with HPA, KEDA and affinity / anti‑affinity rules.

Proficient in at least one programming language : Python, Go, C++, or Java; operational depth with JVM and Node.js services.

English proficiency B2+ (written and spoken).

Personal traits : high ownership, open‑minded, naturally curious, strong communicator.

What we offer : Remote‑first company

– we enable you to work from anywhere in the world.

Flexible working hours

– core hours 11 am–3 pm CET, with flexibility outside those hours.

38 days of paid vacation leave

– plus 14 days of paid sick leave per year.

Join a forward‑thinking team where you have the autonomy to make your own choices and explore new ideas.

Automation & IaC

– Bash, Python, GoLang, Terraform.

Security

– SOPS, Okta, TFsec, Trivy, Istio.

Salary : B2B contract €75,000 – €90,000 yearly + additional compensation for on‑call responsibilities.

The recruitment process

Stage 1 : Screening meeting with Talent Acquisition Partner – basic information about ICEO, the project, the role, and the offer (≈ 45 min).

Stage 2 : Technical interview with 2 developers – focus on system architecture, problem solving, and technology choice (≈ 1 h).

Stage 3 : Interview with Lead of DevOps – practical questions on Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, and case tasks (≈ 1 h).

Stage 4 : Final interview with the Head of Technology (30 min).

Background check after an offer is extended (validity of the offer depends on a successful background check).

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