DevOps Engineer / SRE – Digital Commerce

About the role

METRO.digital, the digital arm of METRO, a leading international wholesaler of food, is looking for a DevOps Engineer / SRE to evaluate and streamline its pipeline and API system, which underpins the Digital Commerce platform. The role takes ownership of a critical GCP platform, troubleshoots infrastructure issues, automates operational work and makes confident technical decisions. It is open to candidates based in Bucharest, Brașov or Cluj.

Key responsibilities

• Keep cloud-native applications running stably on GCP, containerized with Docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes
• Define, implement and monitor SLOs, SLAs and SLIs to measure system performance and user experience
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and manage Kubernetes configurations with Kustomize and Helm
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems with Datadog and GCP-native tools
• Analyze incidents and run postmortems to drive continuous improvement
• Work with developers to bring reliability practices into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Manage and troubleshoot databases, especially PostgreSQL and Cassandra
• Use networking knowledge and Linux system administration to optimize system connectivity and performance

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps
• Proven experience designing and running elastic, resilient systems in the cloud
• Strong understanding of GCP, Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Good English, both written and spoken
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

Required skills

• Terraform, Helm and Kustomize
• Datadog and GCP Monitoring
• Bash scripting and automation frameworks
• CI/CD pipelines, especially GitHub Actions
• Networking basics and Linux system administration
• Nice to have: Prometheus, DataDog, Agile/Scrum experience

What we offer

• Hybrid and agile work in a flexible, multicultural environment
• Individual and company-wide training and development programs
• Support at every stage of your career