Role Overview
As a Site Reliability Engineer, working in Platform Operations team, you'll play a critical role in keeping Nasdaq's platforms running reliably and efficiently across global markets. You'll drive operational excellence through automation, continuous improvement, and close collaboration with engineering teams - helping us deliver resilient, scalable services to clients worldwide.
You'll thrive in this role if you're a self-starter who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, works well across teams, and brings a passion for technology and automation to a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Operations: Manage, scale, and optimize production-grade Kubernetes (k8s) clusters across multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
- GitOps & Deployment: Design and maintain automated application delivery pipelines using ArgoCD to ensure declarative environment states.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, OpenTofu
- Observability: Implement and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch stacks.
- Reliability Engineering & Developer Experience: Participate in on-call rotations, conduct blameless post-mortems, and minimize operational toil through automation while collaborating with software engineering teams to streamline onboarding and reduce friction in the software development lifecycle.
Benefits & Rewards
We offer a competitive, well-rounded rewards package that supports you and your family - inside and outside work.
The base pay range for this role is 4100 – 5000 EUR gross monthly. Actual pay depends on your skills, experience, education, and location. In addition to base pay, we offer short-term incentives (bonus or commission) and long-term incentives (equity), where applicable, as well as the following benefits: * Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering discounted company shares * Pension plan with Nasdaq contribution * 6 additional days off per year * Work from (almost) anywhere — up to 20 days per year * Paid time off to volunteer * Health insurance * Free gym, yoga & pilates classes and discounted in-office massages * 24/7 mental health support for you and your family * Global mentoring program * Unlimited access to e-learning platforms * Hybrid work setup * Modern and comfortable work environment with fresh fruit, snacks, and weekly Fika breaks
For more information, visit Nasdaq Benefits & Rewards Career Page.
Required Qualifications
- Kubernetes Expertise: 2+ years of hands-on experience managing Kubernetes workloads, ingress controllers, storage, and networking.
- GitOps Practice: Proven experience implementing GitOps workflows, specifically configuring and troubleshooting ArgoCD at scale.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Strong familiarity with continuous integration tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
- Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in programming languages like Go or Python, alongside strong Bash scripting skills.
- Linux Fundamentals: Deep understanding of Linux internals, container runtimes (Docker, containerd), and core networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) using tools like Backstage.
- Familiarity with service meshes such as Istio or Linkerd.
- Certification in Kubernetes Administration (CKA) or Security (CKS).
