Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Sovereign Cloud (CloudOps)

Location: Amsterdam (Hybrid)

Start Date: September 2026

Contract: Long term contract

Language Requirement: Fluent Dutch (mandatory) + English

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of customer environments on the Internal Sovereign Cloud platform.

In this role, you will be responsible for defining reliability standards, building observability solutions, managing incidents, and driving continuous improvement through automation. You will play a key role in enabling stable, scalable, and highly available cloud environments within a 24/7 operational model.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and maintain SLIs and SLOs for customer environments
• Design and operate observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards) using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry
• Configure intelligent alerting to reduce noise and prevent alert fatigue
• Own incident management processes, including P1/P2 escalations, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• Correlate metrics, logs, and platform events to determine root causes in complex systems
• Create and maintain runbooks and escalation procedures
• Automate operational workflows, remediation actions, and self-healing mechanisms
• Drive continuous improvement based on SLO performance, error budgets, and incident trends
• Enable and support 24/7 operations through guidance and knowledge sharing
• Support customer-facing incident reporting and reliability reviews
• Collaborate with Platform Ops to integrate platform telemetry into customer dashboards
• Advise stakeholders on reliability, performance, and availability improvements

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–8 years of experience in SRE, platform operations, or reliability engineering roles
• Strong hands-on experience with SRE principles (SLI/SLO/SLA, error budgets, toil reduction)
• Expertise in observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Loki
• Strong incident management and root cause analysis skills in distributed environments
• Experience with Kubernetes / OpenShift operations and troubleshooting
• Experience automating workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code and scripting (Python, Go, Bash)
• Solid understanding of performance, capacity, availability, and resilience engineering
• Strong decision-making skills under pressure with a structured, disciplined approach
• Fluent Dutch is mandatory

Preferred Certifications

• SRE Foundation / Practitioner (DevOps Institute)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• ITIL 4 Foundation
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration

Why Join?

• Work on mission-critical sovereign cloud platforms
• Take ownership of reliability and performance for high-impact customer environments
• Be part of a collaborative, automation-driven CloudOps team
• Hybrid working model in Amsterdam with long-term project stability

Interested? Apply now or reach out directly to learn more.