SRE Lead

SRE Lead

As a preferred supplier to one of our biggest Financial Client , I am seeking for a SRE Lead for a position in Amsterdam , Netherlands. As an SRE Expert, you will play a pivotal role in guiding tribe(s) toward achieving their Site Reliability Engineering objectives. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, balancing the priorities of individual tribes with those of the broader organization. This role requires strategic thinking, strong stakeholder alignment, and the ability to collaborate within a distributed team—each member focusing on a specific tribe.

Responsibilities:

• As a SRE Expert you are dedicated to supporting the PSS SRE Team in their SRE objectives.
• The SRE focus is on creating a reliable and available service for customers.
• Support or perform in depth reviews and analysis on Asset/Service implementations regarding their monitoring and alerting setup;
• Support or perform in depth reviews and analysis on Asset/Service implementations regarding their resilience architectural design;
• Provide knowledge sessions about SRE topics, like SLI/SLO definition and setup, how to perform resilience testing, review DR plans, identify toil etc.;
• Analyze and help support in Root Cause analysis and Post-Mortems, help identify the necessary improvement actions to prevent the incident in the future;
• By (Incident, Problem, Change) data analysis identify structural improvements and advocate them in the organization;
• Provide hands-on support in case application teams are struggling with implementing monitoring and alerting standards.
• The SRE Expert role is one that requires flexibility and agility with switching technical expertise’s and communicative skills to facilitate the organization best.
• Contribute to the E&R organisation
• Is part of a Global SRE Guild.

Core Requirement:

• PSS SRE is looking for a broad skillset for an SRE Expert, comprising of both modern-day and legacy IT stacks.
• Knowledge of coding, testing and CI/CD standards along with a healthy dose of curiosity is a given in you.
• You are not afraid of a challenge no matter what the subject is.
• Impediments are for you to get solved; neglecting them is a direct crime in your book.
• Extensive knowledge of Linux (RHEL) or Windows.
• Good Knowledge of SQL and familiarity with RDBMS databases (Oracle, MS SQL) or NoSQL (Cassandra);
• Good knowledge of CI/CD standards (preferably Azure DevOps);
• Extensive knowledge of IT tools for sharing and collaborating.
• Extensive experience with a monolithic application landscape;
• Good knowledge in at least one programming language;
• Good knowledge in Networking and IPV4 and IPV6 stacks
• Must have experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, elk, Grafana etc). Knowledge of open telemetry is a bonus.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (concept, SLI, SLO, error budgeting, availability reporting)
• Ability to understand Consumers and engineers
• Problem-solving mentality
• Strong voice and healthy scepticism.
• Good knowledge of containers and cloud tooling
• Mentor and coach other SRE Experts in the team.

Contract : 12+ month

Hours : 36 hours/week

Rates : Excellent

Location : Amsterdam

Interview : 2 stages

Nick Chinweerapunt

Account Manager

Gazelle Global Consulting

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