Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 31 days ago

Platform & Reliability Engineer (all genders)

contabo11 open roles

Where
Remote (Germany)
Work mode
Remote
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowPlatform & Reliability Engineer (all genders)contabo · Remote (Germany)

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on contabo's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

11.5% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.4%3 days
  3. 11.5%7 days
  4. 18.1%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 44.6%60 days
This job: posted 31 days ago

The posting

Your creative field

We are looking for a full-time, permanent Platform & Reliability Engineer (all genders) to start as soon as possible. We live remote-first, but you have the freedom to choose whether you want to work hybrid or completely on-site due to your proximity to one of our locations (Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich).

As a Platform & Reliability Engineer at Contabo, you take architectural ownership of our shared infrastructure services – the foundation that multiple development teams build on: API gateway and ingress (Kong, Nginx Ingress), persistent storage (Ceph, Longhorn), secrets and identity infrastructure (Vault, Keycloak), edge security and WAF (Cloudflare), and our observability stack. You'll be taking over grown, partially under-documented systems – and that's exactly where the appeal of this role lies: you work your way deep into these systems, identify and remediate known weak points, evaluate aging components with solution-agnostic build-vs-buy reasoning, and decide which legacy pieces get fixed, replaced, or retired.

One of your central mandates: you design and establish an on-call process, including runbooks for platform and infrastructure incidents – where no formal process exists today. In parallel, you mature our observability practices, rolling out distributed tracing, SLOs/SLIs, and meaningful dashboards across the stack, building on our existing tooling with Prometheus, Grafana, Alloy, and OpenTelemetry. In system design reviews, you bring your strong grounding in the fundamentals – load balancing, caching, sharding, replication, consistency trade-offs – and apply them to new and existing services alike.

You won't be managing a team, but you will be the technical authority multiple teams rely on: you advise across teams on shared infrastructure services, document your knowledge consistently, and actively distribute it – so that critical know-how never again depends on a single person. Success in this role means: known risks are resolved, a solid on-call process is up and running, and single points of failure are measurably reduced platform-wide. The position is remote (Germany), with hybrid or on-site work optional; occasional travel for datacenter visits and team offsites is part of the role.

What convinces us

Your personality, paired with:

  • 7+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles, ideally with end-to-end responsibility for a private cloud or IaaS platform
  • Hands-on production experience with distributed storage systems (Ceph) and Kubernetes persistent storage (Longhorn or comparable)
  • Experience operating API gateways and ingress (Kong, Nginx Ingress, or comparable), including debugging cross-cutting concerns like CORS and rate limiting
  • Experience with CDN/edge security, DDoS mitigation, and WAF configuration (e.g. Cloudflare), as well as firewall-rule design
  • A strong grounding in system design fundamentals (load balancing, caching, sharding/replication, consistency models, message queues) – and the judgment to apply them to real-world trade-offs
  • Experience designing or maturing observability (tracing, metrics, SLOs/SLIs) with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry is desirable
  • Experience with secrets/identity infrastructure (Vault, Keycloak), messaging systems (NATS), and building on-call processes and incident runbooks from scratch is a plus
  • Composure working with grown, incompletely documented systems – paired with the right mix of pragmatism and perfectionism: fix what's broken, retire what's dead, rather than rewriting everything
  • Genuine enjoyment of acting as the technical go-to person across teams, actively sharing and documenting your knowledge
  • Professional fluency in English (our working language); German language skills, certifications (CKA/CKS, Ceph training), and experience with virtualization platforms (Proxmox, OpenStack) are a plus

Awesome Prospects

At Contabo, we are constantly evolving. Our growth creates space for new ideas, ownership, and real impact for people who want to make a difference. What defines us is trust, direct communication, and an open feedback culture. We believe the best solutions are built together and that everyone has the opportunity to contribute, grow, and leave their own footprint.

Additionally, we offer:

  • Work the way that fits your life – Remote or hybrid with flexible hours for a healthy work-life balance and the same technical equipment at home as in the office
  • Experience real freedom – Workation across the EU and in our summer office in Mallorca
  • Stay active and healthy – Access to EGYM Wellpass and thousands of fitness and wellness facilities
  • Enjoy exclusive perks – Attractive discounts on many products and services through our corporate benefits program
  • Recharge your energy – 30 days of vacation plus additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
  • Give back – An extra day off to get involved in social activities through our Volunteer Day
  • Make an impact – Take ownership and bring your ideas to life with real creative freedom
  • Keep growing – Individual professional and personal development opportunities in an innovative tech environment
  • Feel comfortable where you work – Modern, conveniently located offices across our European locations
  • Be part of a diverse team – Work in an international environment shaped by diversity
  • Create lasting memories – Company events and team activities you won’t forget

How to reach us

If you have any questions, you can reach out to Max by email at [email protected].

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against contabo's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on contabo's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    contabo's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.