SRE - DataPlatform

Join a transversal SRE community embedded in a product-oriented Data Platform team of 40–50 engineers, analysts, and data scientists across France and Spain. You'll drive the reliability and scalability of a next-generation Lakehouse platform — anchored on Trino, Iceberg, and on-prem object storage — while leading the transition from public cloud to a resilient hybrid/on-prem architecture.

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Platform Reliability & SRE foundations

• Own reliability of core data services: Trino, Iceberg, S3 / Ceph, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry

• Define and enforce SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call runbooks — solid SRE foundations are non-negotiable

• Build full-stack observability with Prometheus and Grafana: metrics, dashboards, alerting pipelines, and anomaly detection

• Manage and harden PostgreSQL clusters via Patroni for high-availability control-plane services

Kafka ecosystem — Connect & Schema governance

• Operate and scale Kafka Connect clusters: connector lifecycle, offset management, dead-letter queues, and task rebalancing

• Maintain the Schema Registry as the single source of truth for Avro/Protobuf/JSON schemas — enforce compatibility rules and schema evolution policies

• Monitor consumer lag, connector throughput, and broker health via Prometheus JMX exporters and Grafana dashboards

• Ensure end-to-end data contract integrity between producers and Iceberg/S3 consumers

Kubernetes, Kube-in-Kube & Crossplane

• Operate production Kubernetes clusters (GKE/EKS + on-prem) — capacity planning, upgrades, PodDisruptionBudgets, resource quotas

• Architect and manage Kube-in-Kube topologies to provide strong tenant isolation for data platform workloads — each team gets a dedicated virtual cluster without the overhead of a full physical cluster

• Automate infrastructure and resource provisioning with Crossplane: define composite resources (XRDs) so data teams can self-serve Kafka topics, Trino namespaces, and S3 buckets through Kubernetes-native APIs

• Maintain GitOps pipelines for platform deployment and configuration drift detection

Lakehouse architecture & cloud migration

• Migrate from public cloud data warehouse to VeepeeCloud Iceberg-based lakehouse — managing coexistence, schema evolution, and time-travel

• Architect resilient ingestion, transformation, and serving layers around Trino + S3

• Optimize Trino query performance: memory limits, spilling, cost-based optimizer tuning

Agentic & developer enablement

• Build agentic self-service tooling so data teams can provision Trino/Iceberg resources and Kafka Connect pipelines autonomously via Crossplane — reducing toil and ops bottlenecks

• Develop FinOps dashboards (compute, storage, query cost) with Grafana and Prometheus-based cost exporters

• Write clear technical documentation, runbooks, and internal ADRs

Multi-DC resilience & DRP

• Design and implement multi-datacenter strategies across FR1 / NL1 — active-active and active-passive topologies

• Leverage Fast Erasure Coding on object storage (Ceph/S3) to maximize durability with minimal replication overhead

• Ensure data replication consistency across sites for Iceberg table metadata, Trino catalogs, and Schema Registry subjects

• Lead DRP exercises: failover playbooks, RTO/RPO validation, postmortems

Must have

• Strong experience with Kubernetes in production environments

• Experience with Kube-in-Kube technologies (vCluster or similar)

• Solid understanding of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets)

• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)

• Experience with Crossplane

• Familiarity with GitOps workflows

• Experience with S3 and object storage technologies

• Experience with PostgreSQL and Patroni

• Experience with Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry

• Fluent in English
• Experience with multi-datacenter architectures (FR1/NL1)

• Experience designing disaster recovery plans and failover playbooks

• Experience with Fast Erasure Coding (Ceph/S3)

• Experience with Trino, Iceberg, and Lakehouse technologies

• Experience with Airflow

• Experience building agentic self-service platforms

• Knowledge of FinOps and cost optimization practices

• Programming experience in Python, Java, or Go
• Variable bonus

• E-learning platform (self-education courses)

• Meetups & conferences (local and international)

• Flexible office — up to 2 days remote

• International teams (France & Spain)

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1️⃣ 30-minute HR Screen with a Veepeeᵀᵉᶜʰ  Recruiter

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2️⃣ General Technical exchange

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3️⃣ Technical exchange with the manager

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4️⃣ Team Interview