Site Reliability Engineer - Energy Sector - Brussels - ASAP Start - Freelance / CDI

You will contribute to a major project within the European energy sector, supporting a key organization responsible for ensuring reliable and sustainable electricity supply. The mission takes place in a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment that values innovation and teamwork. You will work alongside internal staff and external consultants to help build a greener and more reliable energy infrastructure.

The Engineering chapter team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) service to guarantee the reliability, scalability, monitoring, and performance of on‑premises services within a product‑oriented environment. The role focuses on designing and implementing best practices, improving infrastructure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure stability, observability, and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain monitoring infrastructure
• Create dashboards, alerts, and visualization solutions
• Implement distributed tracing and log aggregation systems
• Establish monitoring standards, SLI/SLO frameworks, and best practices
• Ensure security compliance for on‑prem monitoring tools
• Automate deployment and configuration processes
• Collaborate with development teams on instrumentation
• Participate in on‑duty rotations (24/7 incident support)
  
  

Core Technologies

• Advanced skills with Grafana
• Prometheus + PromQL
• OpenTelemetry
• Elasticsearch

Infrastructure

• Linux administration
• Networking
• On‑premises security

Programming (for automation)

• Python
• Bash
• Go (optional)

Experience

• 3+ years in monitoring/observability
• 2+ years using Grafana & Prometheus in production
• Strong background in Linux system administration
• Demonstrated experience with on‑prem infrastructure

Security

• Knowledge of enterprise security practices
• Understanding of compliance requirements

Other Skills

• Ability to balance technical and business priorities
• Willingness to participate in 24/7 on‑duty rotations

Key Deliverables

• Reduced MTTD and MTTR through robust monitoring
• Full observability across all systems
• Automated monitoring, deployment, and management pipelines
• Security‑compliant monitoring framework
  
  

• Possess a work permit allowing the individual to work in Belgium.

• Hold a valid residence permit confirming the right of residence in Belgium.