Senior Site Reliability Engineer

<p dir="ltr"><span>Kevel is a growing cloud-based technology company leading a bold mission to help make the Internet a better place through ethical advertising practices and building customizable, ad serving solutions quickly and easily. At Kevel, we put people first. Our team members are passionate and self-motivated individuals that help each other do remarkable things every day.</span></p><p><br/></p><p dir="ltr"><b><strong>JOB OVERVIEW:</strong></b><b><strong> </strong></b><span>Site Reliability Engineers at Kevel play a crucial role in keeping Kevel running by defining, measuring, and improving reliability. Our SREs help teams deliver secure, reliable services as often as possible without compromising on quality and developer experience. As our team continues to scale globally, we are looking for talented and driven Site Reliability Engineers with a strong background in software engineering to solve operations problems with software. Come join a team that values continuous improvement above all else.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><br/></p><p dir="ltr"><b><strong>PAY TRANSPARENCY:</strong></b><b><strong>  </strong></b><span>Kevel uses external, third-party market data to determine compensation for all open positions. Our compensation philosophy is based on the candidate’s specific working </span><u><span>location</span></u><span> AND </span><u><span>experience</span></u><span> level. This means that we will take a </span><u><span>no negotiation</span></u><span> approach in our recruitment and offer processes. We believe this is an important step in living our value of embracing diversity while underlining our commitment to fair, equitable and inclusive pay practices. </span></p><p><br/></p><p dir="ltr"><span>An exact offer for this position will be determined based on the candidate's working location and experience level, in relation to our existing team, and will be between </span><b><strong>€60,000 - €75,000 annually.</strong></b><span> This position is not eligible for a bonus. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>All compensation packages include the additional benefits as described in the 'Why you'll love working with us' section below. We also have a transparent ‘Total Rewards Philosophy’ we’d be happy to share with you which describes our overall approach to compensation and benefits in full detail! Our recruitment team can share more about this with you in an initial phone interview and will be happy to answer any questions you have related to compensation at Kevel! </span></p><p dir="ltr"><b><strong>LOCATION:</strong></b><b><strong> </strong></b><span>Remote - Portugal. This position can be based out of our Porto office, remote, or hybrid. Applicants located anywhere within Portugal are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be legally eligible to work within Portugal. </span></p><p><br/></p><p dir="ltr"><b><strong>WHAT YOU’LL ACCOMPLISH:</strong></b></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><span>Work with engineering teams to define reliability targets for their services, solve security and reliability issues, and improve observability</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Embed in engineering teams to solve acute operational issues</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Evaluate services for production readiness</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Automate away time-consuming manual tasks</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Operate production infrastructure</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Lead incident responses and ensure incidents are fully resolved</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Lead by example to improve Kevel’s SRE practices</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Administer shared vendored products and provide internal support</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Take part in on-call rotations to deliver out-of-hours support for systems owned by the Quality Engineering team</span></li></ul><p dir="ltr"><b><strong>SKILLS YOU’LL BRING WITH YOU:</strong></b></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><span>Strong software engineering experience</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Experience operating production systems</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>AWS, GCP or equivalent cloud platform experience </span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Datadog (or similar logging/monitoring platform)</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Infrastructure as Code</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>CI/CD pipelines</span></li><li dir="ltr"><span>Strong written English</span></li></ul><p dir="ltr"><em>We highly encourage people of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply, even if your experiences don’t meet every requirement in the job description. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.</em></p><p dir="ltr"><b><strong>WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:</strong></b></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><b><strong>Fully Remote Team: </strong></b><span>We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. You are welcome to work from home, one of our offices, a WeWork office, or an equival