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.
Responsibilities- Exp level – JG9
- System Reliability & Uptime
- 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.
- Incident Management & Troubleshooting
- 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.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Build and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
- Ensure infrastructure is reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable.
- Monitoring & Observability
- Implement and manage monitoring tools (preferably Splunk).
- Set up alerts and dashboards to track the health and performance of services.
- Automation & Tooling
- Automate operational tasks such as deployments, scaling, backups, and failovers.
- Develop internal tools to support deployment pipelines and team workflows.
- Collaboration with Development & Operations
- 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.
- Programming & Scripting
- Proficiency in languages like Python, Bash, or Ruby.
- Ability to build tools, automate tasks, and debug production issues.
- Cloud Platforms
- Strong experience with cloud providers (GCP, Azure).
- Knowledge of cloud-native services, networking, and security.
- Linux/Unix Systems/Windows
- Deep understanding of system internals, performance tuning, and debugging.
- Containers & Orchestration
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or other orchestration platforms).
- CI/CD & Automation Tools
- Familiarity with Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.
- Experience setting up and managing deployment pipelines.
- Monitoring & Logging
- Knowledge of observability stacks.
- Security & Compliance Awareness
- Understanding of securing systems and managing access control, secrets, and audit logging.
- Soft Skills
- 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.
Salarisomschrijving
€60000 - €80000 monthly