SENIOR SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER, NOORD-HOLLAND

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 a 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
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.

Terraform, Splunk, Python, Kubernetes

Terraform, Splunk, Python, Kubernetes