SRE Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

Engineered in Berlin. Driving the Future of Europe.

At AUTODOC, we are proud to be a homegrown European success story. Founded in Berlin in 2008 and still headquartered in the heart of the continent today, we have evolved from a local specialist into Europe’s leading online platform for the automotive aftermarket.
 Our strength lies in our unique identity: we are a digital-first, e-commerce powerhouse with strong German roots and an expansive reach across 27 European countries. This continental focus allows us to blend our heritage with high-tech innovation, staying agile and closely connected to the markets we serve.

 Today, our team of more than 5,500 professionals from over 50 different countries is redefining mobility through cutting-edge technology. Bring your talent and expertise to a company that is building a sustainable, tech-driven future for drivers everywhere.

 Come join us and impact the future of AUTODOC!

Our Cloud Infrastructure department consists of 4 specialized SRE teams, and we are currently looking for an engineer to join one of them. Each team is dedicated to a specific area, supporting its own group of services and development units.

In this role, you will be part of a team responsible for an area that supports over 200 services running in GCP/GKE. As an SRE, you will balance between maintaining high system availability for your domain and engineering new solutions to enhance our global infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Service Ownership: Act as the primary point of contact for developers within your domain, handling service-related queries in chats and managing SRE-specific tasks.
• Infrastructure Evolution: Maintain and improve current cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Embedded DevOps: Integrate SRE/DevOps best practices into the development lifecycle, from architecture planning to deployment.
• Innovation & PoC: Research, develop, and implement new infrastructure tools; conduct Proof of Concept (PoC) projects to drive technical excellence.
• Automation: Partner with the Automation team to build efficient CI/CD pipelines and custom automated workflows.
• Reliability & Metrics: Participate in developing quality metrics (SLIs/SLOs) and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• On-call Support: Join the on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 stability of our mission-critical services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a SRE/DevOps Engineer.
• Proven experience with containerization and orchestration tools, Kubernetes is the must (GKE is preferred).
• Knowledge of SRE/DevOps methodologies, such as CI/CD, IaC, gitOps, etc.
• Knowledge of at least one tool from the gitOps approach (FluxCD is preferred).
• Experience in Cloud based infrastructures (GCP is preferred).
• Research and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in administering and tuning relational and columnar databases, specifically PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ClickHouse.
• Experience in deployment and maintenance of distributed high-load systems.
• Experience in development of fault-tolerance mechanisms - clustering, replication, scaling approaches, etc.
• Configuration of monitoring solutions (Grafana, VictoriaMetric (operator) are preferred).
• Good scripting skills (bash / python are preferred).

Additional Information

• Competitive salaries based on your professional experience
• Fast growing international company with stable employment
• Annual vacation of 25 working days and 1 additional day off on your birthday
• Day off on Municipality day and Carnaval 
• Meal Allowance (8 euros per working day) 
• Fidelidade Healthcare Plan (Comprehensive health coverage with the option to include your partner and children at discounted rates).
• Mental Wellbeing Program through the OpenUp platform
• AUTODOC corporate discount for purchasing car parts at special rates for personal use
• Exclusive retail discounts via our ‘Benefits at Work’ portal 
• Learning & Development (over 650 courses on soft and hard skills on our e-learning platform) 
• Free English and German language classes (after probation period)
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work