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Site Reliability Engineer

Helsing· AI & Engineering
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Hybrid (Berlin; London; Munich; Paris)Posted 3mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and manage on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure in high-security environments for Helsing's European teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build cloud-native infrastructure platforms on-premises, focusing on Kubernetes-based solutions that enable development teams to operate services at scale.
  • Create robust observability frameworks using Grafana, Prometheus, and distributed tracing to ensure system reliability and performance.
  • Architect and implement secure, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong access controls, policy-as-code governance, and zero-trust networking between red and black network domains. Develop operators and controllers to automate infrastructure provisioning and compliance.
  • Build and maintain MLOps platforms enabling AI researchers to deploy, monitor, and scale machine learning models in production.
  • Collaborate with Security teams to implement supply chain security, container scanning, and runtime protection across the cloud-native stack.

Qualifications

  • Scripting: experience in either Python, Go, Rust or Bash/ Shell for automation and tooling
  • Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD automation
  • Kubernetes Expertise: deep experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, writing custom controllers/operators, and implementing service mesh architectures (Istio/Linkerd)
  • Cloud-Native Technologies: hands-on experience with CNCF ecosystem (e.g., Helm, ArgoCD, Flux) and container runtime security tools like Falco
  • Observability Stack: expert-level knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry; experience building dashboards, alerts, and SLI/SLO frameworks
  • Networking: expert understanding of networking concepts, protocols and security
  • MLOps Platforms: experience with Kubeflow, MLflow, or similar platforms
  • Infrastructure as Code: proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes manifest templating; experience with policy-as-code tools like OPA/Gatekeeper
  • System Administration: deep understanding of Linux/Unix system administration and highly available, distributed systems
  • Comfortable building out data and telemetry pipelines for debugging and future-proofing solutions

Skills

Required:ScriptingGitOps & CI/CDKubernetesCloud-native technologiesObservabilityNetworkingMLOps PlatformsInfrastructure as CodeSystem Administration
Nice to have:Telemetry pipelines

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and VSOP options
  • Relocation support
  • Social and education allowances
  • Regular company events and all-hands across Europe
  • A hands-on onboarding program (Infraduction) to learn tech stack and tooling
Last updated Jul 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Helsing

Helsing | Artificial intelligence to protect our democracies

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