# Site Reliability Engineer

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Berlin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, implement, and manage our on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure.

Your role will involve designing and building cloud-native infrastructure platforms on-premises, focusing on Kubernetes-based solutions that enable our development teams to operate services at scale.

Key responsibilities include:

- Creating robust observability frameworks using Grafana, Prometheus, and distributed tracing to ensure system reliability and performance

- Architecting and implementing secure, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong access controls, policy-as-code governance, and zero-trust networking

- Building and maintaining MLOps platforms enabling AI researchers to deploy, monitor, and scale machine learning models in production

- Collaborating closely with our Security teams to implement supply chain security, container scanning, and runtime protection across our cloud-native stack

The ideal candidate will have:

- Experience with scripting in Python, Go, Rust, or Bash/Shell for automation and tooling

- Knowledge of GitOps workflows and CI/CD automation

- Deep experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, writing custom controllers/operators, and implementing service mesh architectures

- Hands-on experience with CNCF ecosystem, including Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, and container runtime security tools like Falco

- Expert-level knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry

- Understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and security

- Experience with MLOps platforms, Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes manifest templating

- Proficiency in Linux/Unix system administration and highly available, distributed systems

We offer competitive compensation and VSOP options, relocation support, social and education allowances, regular company events, and a hands-on onboarding program.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Bash/Shell
- GitOps
- CI/CD automation
- Kubernetes
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- distributed tracing
- CNCF ecosystem
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- Flux
- Falco
- OpenTelemetry
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Kubernetes manifest templating
- Linux/Unix system administration

### Nice to have
- MLOps platforms
- Kubeflow
- MLflow
- policy-as-code tools
- OPA/Gatekeeper

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