Kiwigrid GmbH: (Senior) Site Reliability Engineer(m/f/d) (IT System Administrator)

Kiwigrid GmbHDresdenEURESpublished 09/27/2026
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Your Tasks

As a Site Reliability Engineer in our dynamic SRE team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our KiwiOS IoT platform and the products built upon it. You will work closely with our software development teams and ensure that the decentralized energy world is available to everyone around the clock.

Your tasks:

  • Monitoring and Incident Management: You will equip our services with the important metrics needed to continuously monitor our system for malfunctions. In the event of an incident, you will support debugging in the Google Cloud in cooperation with the development teams to resolve the error as quickly as possible. Leading incident response activities and taking on on-call duties will also be part of your role.
  • Automation and Scalability: You will take our cloud infrastructure to the next level by identifying and automating recurring tasks. Additionally, you will recommend Managed Services from the Google Cloud to the development teams and drive their implementation within the company. The continuous further development of our deployment process is also part of your responsibility, helping teams achieve simpler and more secure deployments in Kiwigrid’s production environment.
  • Security and Compliance: You will help Kiwigrid achieve a secure cloud environment by integrating tooling for monitoring vulnerabilities and detecting external, potentially dangerous activities. You will be involved in creating compliance policies and supporting audits.
  • Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: You will help development teams prepare their documentation so that the stack and request flows are traceable. Additionally, you will bring best practices from the SRE team into the development teams to achieve a high level of standardization there.

Your Profile

  • Professional experience with cloud infrastructures and implementation of IT projects
  • Enthusiasm for new technologies and a willingness for continuous further education
  • Good knowledge of current cloud technologies, especially extensive experience with the Google Cloud (GCP)
  • Independent, highly structured, and conscientious way of working
  • Analytical and conceptual skills combined with cross-system and process-oriented thinking
  • High quality awareness and assertiveness
  • Practical experience with agile working methods
  • Proactive and clear communication
  • Hybrid working with at least 1-2 days of office presence per week
  • Very good written and spoken English skills
  • Desirable: good written and spoken German skills

What do we offer?

  • An indefinite employment contract with performance-related compensation
  • Flexible working hours and various working time models; mobile working
  • Agile working; light-filled lofts; work islands & standing desks; English courses
  • Occupational health management; fresh fruit, free drinks and coffee specialties as much as you want
  • Joint sporting events such as company runs or volleyball; company bicycle leasing; sick days for annoying colds, subsidy for Urban Sports Club for your fitness
  • Job ticket; bonus for employee referrals; company pension model
  • Personal responsibility; regular feedback meetings; fixed further education budgets and training on the job
  • Sponsored leisure activities (billiards, foosball, table tennis, etc.)
  • Individual design of your own workplace

Contact

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Keywords: Dresden, Cloud, IoT, Kubernetes, GCP, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Architecture, Incident Management, Energy Management, SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, K8s, DevOps, Service Management, servicemanagement, webservice, Empfehlungsbund Source/Application via: https://www.empfehlungsbund.de/jobs/273196/senior-site-reliability-engineer-m-strich-w-strich-d (https://www.empfehlungsbund.de/jobs/273196/senior-site-reliability-engineer-m-strich-w-strich-d#apply_form) Short info about the company

What distinguishes Kiwigrid from its competitors is that it does not just sell a concept for the Internet of Things. Kiwigrid offers cross-industry value creation and sees itself as an open platform for the future of energy and e-mobility. Kiwigrid's customers use the platform for a wide variety of reasons, depending on where they stand today, which industry they operate in, and what they want to offer. The platform can help them open up to new markets, diversify their offering, and develop cross-industry business models. To this end, Kiwigrid provides them with pioneering technologies and services that increase energy efficiency, optimize the use of renewable energies, pave the way for electric vehicles, and stabilize power grids.