Senior SRE Engineer

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a skilled software engineer with a strong background in DevOps and platform engineering to join our Application Observability team. This team plays a critical role in managing stateful services within the Service Reliability and Observability (SRO) department.

We provide engaging tasks in a dynamic environment, paired with technological ownership and the opportunity to propose and implement improvement initiatives in the observability workspace.

The SRO department provides innovative observability solutions and standardised methods to enhance the efficiency and reliability of IT systems, simplifying tasks for both infrastructure and software engineers.

The Application Observability (AppO) team focuses on driving observability forward by utilising tools such as OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack, Prometheus and Grafana.

“We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation.”

You will:

As part of the Application Observability (AppO) team, your responsibilities will include:

• Defining and refining monitoring and alerting rules, both for the team and organisation wide
• Work together with other teams (Platform and Backend Observability) to enhance performance and fulfil user stories
• Leading projects such as Grafana’s migration from on-premises data centers to AWS by planning, defining requirements, supervising and implementing
• Improving the deployment of services using Git workflows and ArgoCD
• Proposing and validating performance and user experience improvements for AppO services
• Addressing issues, implementing preventive measures and managing postmortems and related improvement tasks
• Analysing performance, identifying anomalies and defining, documenting and implementing corrective measures
• Ensuring compliance with the SLA
  
  

Additionally, you will participate in the on-call rotation for team services, which requires the ability to resolve issues (using runbooks) related to:

• Elasticsearch
• Thanos
• Kafka
• OpenTelemetry
• Grafana
• Docker
  
  

About you:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a software engineer, infrastructure engineer or within the SRE domain
• Proven experience in ownership roles, including defining strategies, deploying, monitoring, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes
• A strong sense of ownership with a proactive, can-do attitude
• Hands-on experience with server-side technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS or OpenShift
• Expertise in managing observability and monitoring tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, tracing tools or OpenTelemetry
• Solid understanding of Python programming (experience with Golang is a significant advantage)
• Upper-Intermediate English skills
  
  

We offer:

Monthly salary range from 4560 EUR to 6840 EUR gross (based on your competencies relevant for the job).

Additionally, each Danske Bank employee receives employee benefits package which includes:

• Growth opportunities: professional & supportive team, e-learnings, numerous development programs; (incl. professional certificates); 100+ professions for internal mobility opportunities.
• Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; additional health insurance; mental well-being practices; partial psychologist counselling compensation; silence and sleep zones at the office; game rooms.
• Hybrid working conditions: Work from home up to two days a week; home office budget (after the probation period); modern Danske Campus workplace developed with anthropologist for the best employee experience.
• Additional days of leave: for rest, health, volunteering, exams in higher education institutions, and other important activities. Moreover, for seniority with Danske Bank.
• Monetary compensation package: accidents & critical diseases insurance; financial support in case of unfortunate events, travel insurance; IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contribution.
  
  

See all the benefits HERE .

Your title in job contract will be IT Software Engineer (Cloud Specialist), Senior.

If you're interested in this role and joining my team, feel free to contact me Linas Kulbaciauskas, Leader of team via LinkedIn , and I will answer your questions!

About Us

Danske Bank is a Nordic bank with bridges to the world around us. For 150 years, we have supported people and businesses in releasing their potential. A career with us is an opportunity to join a community of 22,000 colleagues in a culture where we are committed to Teaming Up, Owning It and Being Open. Together, we are on a journey to transform Danske Bank into a better bank. For our customers, our employees and the societies around us.