Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About the role

GRNET, a Greek government entity under the Ministry of Digital Governance, provides network and cloud services to research institutions, education bodies and public and private agencies. Its Site Reliability Engineering department uses free and open source software such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Debian GNU/Linux, OpenStack, Ceph and Ansible, and is split into three groups: Cloud, Platform and Services. As an SRE you will be assigned to one of them depending on needs, preferences and expertise.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement fault-tolerant, scalable and distributed services.
• Handle deep investigations of legacy infrastructure, technical debt and unfamiliar areas.
• Lead projects within the team and collaborate openly with other people and teams.
• Work with Greek-speaking stakeholders and teams.

Required profile

• At least 3 years of professional experience as an SRE or software engineer focused on infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable professional experience.
• Experience designing distributed services at scale, on-premises or in the cloud.
• Working-level proficiency in Greek.

Required skills

• Running containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
• DevOps practices that bridge gaps and speed up processes.
• Linux internals (cgroups, tcpdump, inode, procfs).
• At least one programming language.
• Bonus: data center and Linux networking, on-premises cloud (OpenStack, OpenNebula), open-source contributions.

What we offer

• A dynamic, fast-paced environment encouraging teamwork and continuous learning.
• Competitive remuneration and benefits, including international collaboration.
• Training and participation in technical conferences.

The role is fully remote in day-to-day work but requires living in Athens or nearby for occasional on-site meetings and team events.