Site Reliability Engineer | Netherlands

Job Location – Eindhoven, Netherlands

Hybrid Model - 2/3 days onsite

Experience (Years): 6 - 8 years

Pay Rate – TBN

Start Date - ASAP

6 Months Contract – Renewable

Essential Skills

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.

Desirable Skills

• 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.
• Understanding of securing systems and managing access control, secrets, and audit logging