Kubernetes Reliability Engineer

**Kubernetes Reliability Engineer**

Vienna, Austria — Hybrid

Cloud Infrastructure | Kubernetes | Site Reliability Engineering | Platform Engineering

Our client, a growing
**Cloud Infrastructure**
company based in Vienna, is looking for a
**Kubernetes Reliability Engineer**
to improve the resilience, observability, and operability of large-scale Kubernetes environments.

You'll work at the intersection of
**Kubernetes Engineering, SRE, and Platform Engineering**
, building the automation and observability systems that keep critical cloud infrastructure reliable in production.

What You'll Work On

• Improve reliability and resilience across production Kubernetes clusters

• Build platform and operational tooling in Go

• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and reliability standards

• Develop observability using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform

• Investigate complex Kubernetes and Linux production issues

• Improve alerting, incident detection, and operational visibility

• Automate repetitive operational and recovery workflows

• Analyse capacity, performance, and infrastructure bottlenecks

• Work with engineering teams to improve application reliability on Kubernetes

Core Skills

• 4+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or similar roles

• Strong Kubernetes experience in production environments

• Go

• Prometheus

• OpenTelemetry

• Terraform

• Linux

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and production reliability

Nice to Have

Grafana

Kubernetes Operators / Controllers

Helm

Argo CD / GitOps

AWS / GCP / Azure

eBPF

Service meshes

Incident management and postmortems

Capacity planning and performance engineering

Experience operating multi-cluster or large-scale Kubernetes environments