Site Reliability Engineer

Our client in Belgium is currently searching for an SRE engineer to work on a greenfield project. You will help them implement and scale SRE best practices for their service platform. You’ll be working closely with product, operations, platform, and software engineering teams to ensure reliability and performance across all systems.

Day to day role;

• Define and Monitor SLOs: Collaborate with teams to set Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that focus on the user journey, and ensure appropriate alerting, monitoring, and reporting on key performance indicators.
• Incident Management: Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis for system-wide incidents, working closely with our platform, operations, and software engineering teams.
• Proactive Alerting: Implement effective monitoring and alerting routines to prevent incidents, ensuring the on-call team is only engaged in truly exceptional circumstances.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive the improvement of incident response times by applying insights from postmortems and implementing lessons learned.
• Optimise System Performance: Identify and resolve service performance bottlenecks across application, runtime, and operating systems, addressing issues related to CPU, memory, databases, networks, and more.
• Build Monitoring Solutions: Set up and maintain a robust monitoring stack with insightful dashboards and visualisations using Grafana, Loki and Prometheus.

Ideal profile;

• At least 3 years of professional experience in a similar SRE or infrastructure-related role.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a software engineer, with a deep understanding of building scalable, resilient service-oriented architectures at a medium scale.
• 3 years hands-on experience selecting, setting up, and optimising monitoring stacks, including building dashboards that provide deep and pertinent insights into system health, and delivering comprehensive monthly reports to demonstrate SLA compliance to customers.
• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting performance issues at all levels: services, runtime (JVM), containers (Docker), operating system (Linux), and networking.
• Team player with excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong analytical skills and a security-first mindset.
• Fluency in English.