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.

 Job 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.

 Required Skillset

o 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.