Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Connectivity

About the Opportunity We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering Segment in the Mesh Team. The mission of Platform Engineering is to provide trusted, performant, self-service platforms to empower product teams to build the bank the world loves to use. As one of the first banks completely hosted in the cloud - our security, resilience and productivity standards require not only the use of a modern technology stack, but the building of teams in line with our principles and in the service of our product teams, the company and our customers. In this role, you will: Be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining our service mesh in order to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our services. Working in this area involves a deep understanding of microservices, service mesh architecture, networking protocols and cloud computing, as well as the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues. More specifically, you will: • Design, develop and implement systems, services and solutions, with the aim of improving the security, reliability, scalability and availability of systems in the following domains: • Service Mesh • Internal Networking • Partner Connectivity • Secrets Management • Service Discovery • Take ownership of our service mesh and it's underlying network stack and ensure its optimal performance and reliability • Ensure N26 availability by creating monitors and alerts, diagnose, and resolve issues related to the service mesh • Collaborate with other teams and support them in bringing critical new features to N26 • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and new technology developments in service mesh • Identify and automate repetitive tasks • Monitor the health of your system and support them as part of an on-call rotation What you need to be successful: Background and skills: • Professional experience as an SRE or DevOps engineer • Hands-on, production experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Knowledge of Go and/or Python • Broad understanding of systems (Linux) and networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, etc.) • Knowledge of VPNs and/or hands-on experience with implementation a bonus • Expertise in container virtualization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) as well as experience with service mesh implementations (Istio) • Performance monitoring and incident analysis • Knowledge of Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Salt/Ansible • Proactive, with an ability to work with a high degree of autonomy • Desire to learn, improve and leave systems in a better state than you found them in Traits: • Independently lead tech projects • Lead and promote technical discussions with engineering audiences • Mentoring & support of Junior & Mid-level engineers • Review, assessment & improvement of the current team tool landscape • You are on top of incidents, generate learnings and follow up • Deepest understanding of everything built by the team • Leading specialist activities, drive tech projects independently • Bring architectural & technical debt issues into the backlog • You see the delivery of your team in a broad, domain-wide context • Building bridges to other areas and be the glue in your own team • Take full responsibility for your work and projects you participate • Mature & solution-oriented tech counterpart in any discussion What’s in it for you: • Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors. • Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation. • Come together with your team in the office for a dedicated day of teamwork each week, plus another