Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Crytek is looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Hunt: Showdown’s NetOps department in our new state-of-the-art office in Frankfurt, Germany.
You will be the key liaison between development teams and the network operations team. You will drive operational excellence, lead infrastructure initiatives, and work closely with production and architecture to ensure systems are highly available, scalable, and efficient. This position includes both operational and strategic responsibilities.
This role is based on-site at our headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, where you’ll collaborate with world-class developers and benefit from our attractive relocation package.
- Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives to improve reliability, scalability, and performance across our live game infrastructure.
- Serve as subject matter expert and mentor to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Daily operation and maintenance of hosted/cloud data-center environments.
- Installation, configuration, and patching of system and game software.
- Define, monitor, and improve SLIs/SLOs to maintain 99.9%+ uptime.
- Own incident response and root cause analysis processes; create and maintain runbooks and playbooks.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies, conducting POCs and driving them to production.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation for systems, workflows, and processes.
- Lead capacity planning, scaling strategies, and disaster recovery efforts.
- Continuously optimize the reliability, observability, and cost efficiency of critical infrastructure.
- Requirements
- Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, high-availability systems.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Experienced with containerization and orchestration technologies.
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment, and infrastructure as code.
- Solid understanding of network security principles.
- Hands-on experience with both bare-metal and cloud (preferably AWS).
- Proficient in automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Skilled with observability tools like Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Mimir, and Grafana.
- Deep understanding of scalability, profiling, debugging, and performance testing.
- Strong grasp of web stack fundamentals (REST, HTTP, CDN, caching).
- Experience setting up monitoring, metrics, and proactive alerting for production systems (Go, Java, C++).
- Proficient scripting in Shell and Python.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills in English.
- Willingness to relocate to Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Pluses
- Experience with Zero Trust Networks, WireGuard, Nomad, MaaS, Foreman.
- Knowledge of capacity forecasting and cost optimization for large-scale systems.
What you can expect from us
Career Path
Your professional development is important to us, so we have laid out a career plan to help you progress towards your goals and objectives.
Relocation Support
We offer a relocation budget and full coverage of flights to Frankfurt for you and your family.
You can expect extensive assistance with visa, work permits, and communication with authorities during the relocation process, as well as help settling into Germany (e.g. setting up appointments with banks, government agencies, schools, landlords, finding apartments etc.).
Company Apartment
To help you get settled, we provide you with a fully furnished company apartment during your first three months in Frankfurt.
Public Transport Pass
Discover Frankfurt by bus, tram and metro – free of charge.
Gym Card
A healthy body is a healthy mind. We offer a membership at the premium gym chain Fitness First in Germany. Work out, join group fitness classes, or relax in the wellness facilities.
State-of-the-art Office
We’ve recently moved into a brand-new, modern office located in the heart of Frankfurt. Our new workspace is designed to inspire creativity and collaboration, with open areas, quiet zones, and top-tier facilities — all just steps away from public transport, restaurants, bars and cultural hotspots.
International Environment
We truly embody diversity at Crytek. With employees from over 42 different countries, we define ourselves by our cultural diversity.
German Classes
Understanding the local culture will make your stay abroad more enjoyable, and Crytek supports that by offering German language courses for you and your family.
Events
Join us on our exciting company events, including new starter breakfasts, summer and winter parties, our annual trip to Gamescom in Cologne, and many more!
Vacation Days
At our Frankfurt office you can enjoy 24 days of vacation per year, and every 2 years you get 1 more (up to a maximum of 28 days). You will also have on average 10 public holidays on top of the days you take off.
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We are Crytek.
Crytek is an independent video game developer and publisher based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Crytek pushes the boundaries of the possible to make the impossible a reality. We want to create the most fun gaming experiences around, and if we have to blow up computer system requirements or push genre boundaries to do so, then we will. With almost two decades of experience in the games industry, Crytek takes its unique combination of experience and skills and continue to make an impact via innovative, fun, cutting-edge games and technology.