Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Overview:

Our Client is a leading firm in the technology sector, committed to enhancing the IT infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of system reliability and efficiency.

They are looking for a seasoned Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their dynamic team.



In this pivotal role, you will drive and enhance operational excellence, directly contributing to our mission of delivering safe and efficient aviation services. You are the ideal candidate if you are deeply entrenched in the modern ecosystem, have a strong background in a wide range of technologies and have a proven track record in high-stakes industries.

In the Role of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will:

- Be a member of a dynamic team to operate and maintain mission critical applications.

- Work with the newest, state of art cloud native technologies both in the cloud and on-prem.

- Detect, identify, analyze, faults if they arise, help fixing, work on solutions to avoid further occurrence.

- Monitor system performance and proactively identify and resolve issues.

- Conduct root cause analysis for production errors and implement preventive measures.

- Collaborate with development teams to integrate SRE best practices into the software lifecycle.

- Constantly improve the service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and the overall manageability.

- Be involved in a common work with security experts, architects, and developers to build and improve a sustainable technical landscape.

- Continuously research and assess new approaches for potential use, and provide recommendations and subject matter expertise regarding trends, technology, tools, and services.

- Participate in on-call rotation, providing support for critical issues.

- Contribute to all areas of Site Reliability Engineering as a team member.

Qualifications:

- Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in computer science or related field.

- Good understanding and experience in SRE and Platform Engineering principles and frameworks

- Advanced experience in automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins)

- Advanced experience in Kubernetes (OpenShift) and Linux system administration (RedHat)

- Advanced experience in operating and automating solutions with at least three of the following technologies/Products:

o Observability (OpenTelemetry, Elastic stack, Prometheus, Jaeger)

o Cloud services (Azure)

o Document database (MongoDB)

o Relational Database Management Systems (PostgreSQL)

o Messaging system (Solace)

o Event Streaming (Kafka)

o IAM (Okta)

o Secret management (Hashicorp Vault)

- Good understanding of security principles.

- Experience in developing applications is an advantage.

- Ability to quickly acquire and utilize knowledge on new methodologies and solutions.

- Strong ethics and confidentiality.

- Strong communication skills, proficient in English, both written and spoken.

- Ability to work collaboratively in a team and communicate effectively.

- EU citizenship and willingness to live in or around Brussels.

- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work model.

- Opportunities for professional growth and development in a technologically advanced environment.

- Dynamic and supportive team culture.