Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

About the role

Makersite GmbH is expanding its technical team and is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help drive its mission in sustainable product development. The company builds digital solutions for product lifecycle management and needs an experienced engineer who keeps its infrastructure robust, scalable and compliant with international standards. This is a remote-first role based in Gauteng, South Africa, with a full-time contract.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and maintain existing infrastructure, identifying technical bottlenecks that affect performance
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting and observability frameworks (for example Prometheus, Grafana or CloudWatch)
• Oversee software releases and manage backups so that Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives are met
• Lead post-mortems after outages and take part in a rotation for off-duty or pager support
• Ensure infrastructure and internal processes meet ISO certification requirements
• Work with software developers to streamline release cycles and maintain uptime, and mentor junior staff

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• At least 7 years of relevant experience, including a minimum of 3 years in SRE or DevOps infrastructure
• Experience coaching or mentoring team members, with strong leadership and communication skills

Required skills

• Cloud platforms, specifically AWS or Azure
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools, particularly Terraform and Ansible
• Strong troubleshooting skills and incident management under pressure