Company Description

Since its foundation in 2007, Solactive AG has evolved into one of the world’s most important and fastest-growing index providers. From our headquarters in Frankfurt, we power global investment products across ETFs, structured products, and mandates. Our reputation is built on innovation, speed, flexibility, and strong partnerships.

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring our infrastructure and also developing automation strategies and deployment processes. You will become an integral part of the team, making every problem of the platform a problem of your own, and solving them accordingly. Big data, real-time computation, high availability and scalability are the challenges the Tech Platform Operations team is facing. To match this growth, we are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to boost our team in the heart of Berlin.

Your Tasks

You are there not just to solve problems: you rather find automation rules for a permanent solution.

• Supporting, maintaining and developing our on-premise environment
• Executing daily operations to keep production systems running efficiently
• Scripting and developing automation in Python
• Developing and maintaining configuration management solutions & task schedulers
• Developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Maintaining documentation for procedures, configurations, and programs

Your Profile

• An open mind and creative approach to problem solving with open source-based solutions
• 5+ years of experience as an SRE or Platform Engineer
• Strong hands-on experience with self-hosted Kubernetes clusters
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with storage technologies such as Ceph (Block storage, S3) and ZFS
• Knowledge of monitoring and performance analysis of systems and applications (e.g. InfluxDB, LGTM Stack, ELK Stack)
• Deep knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• Solid understanding in networking and routing technologies like BGP (Fortigate is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with virtualization environments such as Proxmox and OpenStack
• Hands-on experience in cloud technologies is a plus
• Fluent in English; German Language is a plus

Our Offer

• Global Team: Join our motivated international team at Solactive
• FinTech Excellence: Experience FinTech excellence at Solactive
• Modern Culture: Enjoy our modern, flat hierarchy and startup-like culture
• Responsibility & Connections: Take over responsibility from day one and build relationships in- and outside of the company.
• Vacation: Enjoy 30 annual vacation days, plus extra time off for Christmas Eve and New Year
• Competitive Compensation: Receive a competitive compensation package
• Special Benefits: Job ticket and gym access, access to Corporate Benefits, modern office space with ergonomic set-up, employee lounge, and free beverages and fruits
• Community & Networking: Engage in our various networking events
• Professional Development: Grow both personally and professionally through our diverse training offers
• Flexibility: Embrace a flexible work culture with the freedom to choose your work hours, including a hybrid work model, all within a diverse and dynamic environment