Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer – Compute

at Scaleway

• Job title: Site Reliability Engineer – Compute
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Grafana, Kubernetes, Prometheus, SaltStack, Vault
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Paris, France

About the role

• Site Reliability Engineer automating infrastructure deployment for Scaleway's sovereign cloud products. Collaborating with product teams to enhance observability and reliability of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and standardize the infrastructure that hosts Scaleway’s product catalog.
• Manage onboarding of product teams onto the platform.
• Implement and optimize observability stacks (monitoring, alerting).
• Automate infrastructure using GitOps processes and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deploy product stacks across new geographic regions.
• Handle operational maintenance (MCO) and participate in a weekly on-call rotation (approximately 1 week per month, including weekends).
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and maintain technical documentation.
• Collaborate closely with product teams to bridge the gap between development and infrastructure.
• Ensure security compliance, including secret management (e.g., Vault).
• Drive continuous improvement of existing systems and deployment workflows.

Requirements

• Senior-level Systems Administration experience (ideally 7+ years).
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, FluxCD).
• Strong automation skills (Ansible, Salt, GitLab CI/CD).
• Proficiency with observability tools (Grafana, Thanos, Prometheus).
• Solid knowledge of networking and security principles.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Comfortable with on-call rotations and SRE objectives (SLA/SLO concepts).

Benefits

• Hybrid work: Up to 3 days of remote work per week.
• Offices: Spacious, dynamic offices with bold design, conveniently located near public transport. Most offices include outdoor spaces (terraces) and bike parking.
• Dining: A chef provides healthy meals at headquarters, and breakfast is available at all sites year-round. Employees working from regional sites receive a Swile card for lunches.
• Well-being support: Access to gym facilities, daycare places, and discounts on caregiving services to help maintain work-life balance.
• International environment: Dozens of nationalities; English is as widely spoken as French.
• Career & mobility: Managers encourage internal mobility, with opportunities to move to other entities within the Iliad Group available to all employees.