[ref. d5462920] Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Role- Senior SRE Engineer

Location- Eindhoven, Netherlands

Work type – Contract role

Role Overview:

In this role you are working on highly technical Software Development Environment where not a single day is the same. The team has a very broad responsibility, maintaining a great number of tools as well as a large set of infrastructure. The candidate we are looking for has a broad interest and loves to work one week as a software engineer extending our tools, and the other week to dive deep into performance optimization of our infrastructure.

• Exp level – JG9

• Design and implement strategies to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of systems and services.
• Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.

• Respond to system outages and incidents, lead post-mortem investigations, and implement preventive measures.
• Create runbooks and automate recovery processes to reduce manual intervention.
• Share the on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for incidents.

• Build and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
• Ensure infrastructure is reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable.

• Implement and manage monitoring tools (preferably Splunk).
• Set up alerts and dashboards to track the health and performance of services.

• Automate operational tasks such as deployments, scaling, backups, and failovers.
• Develop internal tools to support deployment pipelines and team workflows.

• Work closely with developers to design systems that are scalable and supportable.
• Advocate for and implement best practices around CI/CD, testing, and release management.

 Required Skillset

• Proficiency in languages like Python, Bash, or Ruby.
• Ability to build tools, automate tasks, and debug production issues.

• Strong experience with cloud providers (GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of cloud-native services, networking, and security.

• Deep understanding of system internals, performance tuning, and debugging.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or other orchestration platforms).

• Familiarity with Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.
• Experience setting up and managing deployment pipelines.

• Knowledge of observability stacks.
• Security & Compliance Awareness
• Understanding of securing systems and managing access control, secrets, and audit logging.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Enjoy coaching more junior team members.
• Ability to work under pressure during incidents and lead blameless post-mortems.
• Analytical mindset and proactive problem-solving approach.