Contract: IT Cloud Site Reliability Engineer
Start Date: August/September 2025
Duration: 12 months
Location: On site in Munich, Germany
Rate: €525 - €575 per day (Freelance deliverable based contract)
Languages: English (Mandatory) - Preference also for German and/or French
Reference: 19226
Contract project for experienced IT Cloud Site Reliability Engineers to provide Hardware and Software deployment and hosting services around Google Cloud. Excellent customer/client facing skills required.
STRONG KUBERNETES AND Linux REQUIRED. Other technologies are nice to have.
MUST be a NATIONAL of an NATO Country (Not UK/USA/Australia/NZ or Canada) to complete background checks.
* Responsible for deployment, reset, management hosting and configuration of systems as needed to maintain systems availability.
* Assess and resolve issues and provide solutions covering full portfolio across design, scalability, efficiency and reliability.
* Perform day to day troubleshooting and resolution of Infrastructure issues (Network, Storage, Servers,OS, Kubernetes, etc.) where identified
* Deployment and Management: You will help customers deploy and manage Google systems infrastructure and services.
* Security: Ensuring the security of systems deployments, including implementing security policies, monitoring, and incident response.
* Support: Providing technical support and troubleshooting for Cloud deployments.
* Compliance: Ensuring compliance with relevant security standards and regulations.
* Specialised Skills: Experience in areas like Kubernetes, networking, security, and cloud operations.
You will have strong technical skills with a number of the following technologies covering both H/W and S/W along with good personal communication skills:
Kubernetes:
* Architecture of a Kubernetes Cluster (controller, scheduler, kubelet, static pods, kube-Proxy, deployments, daemon-sets, stateful-sets etc.)- understanding of the CSI and the CNI
* Efficiency in the navigation of a Kubernetes resources (kubectl, k9s) & understanding of the extensibility of Kubernetes through Custom Resources.
* Must have experience with IAM.
Networking Basics:
* Switching, VLANS, subnetting, network t-shoot (dump, and analysys)
* IP Addressing, routing
* common L7 protocols: DHCP, DNS, TLS
* efficiency setting IP interfaces, routes on a Linux machine
* efficiency with Linux networking tools (IP, tcpdump, dig, netstat, etc.)
* OOB interfaces - serial console.
Istio (Service Mesh) Basics:
* familiarity with the main concepts of a Service Mesh
* high level understanding of Envoy Proxy functionality
PKI:
* understanding of SSL Certificates, Root CA, Intermediate CA, CSR, renewing procedures.
* efficiency with openssl cli tool.
Linux:
* Deep knowledge of Linux (OS management, network administrator tasks, troubleshooting)
* understanding of Booting sequence (PXE boot)
* process management and systemd, journalctl
* Linux containers and namespaces
* Proficiency use of bash, vim, tmux, ssh
* Bash or python Scripting
Hardware:
* Proficiency work with ILO, and OOB interfaces, cabling.
Windows:
* Active Directory, ADFS, Hyper-V, DSC, GPOs.
Networking Advanced:
* Familiarity with Cisco Switches console & familiarity with overlays VxLANs (eVPN), VRFs.
* Familiarity with routing protocols: OSPF, LLDP, BGP
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.