Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Freelance contract

The location can be either 50% onsite in Belgium (onshore rate) or fully remote within the EU, with occasional travel to the Brussels office (travel expenses reimbursed, offshore rate).

In the Role of the SRE you will:

• Be a member of a dynamic team to operate and maintain mission critical applications of the customer.
• Work with the newest, state of art cloud native technologies both in the cloud and on-prem.
• Deploy products and automate deployments.
• Monitor systems, and implement instrumentation for better observability, ML, and other techniques to predict and avoid anomalies.
• Detect, identify, analyze, faults if they arise, help fixing, work on solutions to avoid furtheroccurrence.
• Constantly improve the service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and the overallmanageability.
• 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 andsubject matter expertise regarding trends, technology, tools,and services.
• Actively and continuously promote and contribute to improvements of operations and SRE, e.g., monitoring, observability, incident management, deployment or change management.
• Contribute to all areas of solution architecture as a team member.

Must have Skills:

• Proactive attitude and passion for automation.
• Team player, who can work individually.
• Ability to work in online collaboration in an international environment.
• Ability to quickly acquire and utilize knowledge on new methodologies and solutions.
• Being calm, analytical, structured, and reliable during incident resolution.
• Strong ethics and confidentiality

Must have qualification (Demonstrable experience required):

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in computer science or related field.
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience to perform the advertised tasks.
• Good understanding and experience in SRE / Operations principles and frameworks, DevOps and DevSecOps principles.
• Good understanding of security principles.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (AKS, OpenStack), Linux system administration (RedHat) and good understanding of networking protocols.
• Hands on experience in automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Git (Terraform,Ansible, Jenkins).
• Experience in scripting (bash, Python).
• Knowledge and handson experience in operating and automating solutions with at least two from the following technologies/Products or equivalents:
• Observability (Elastic, Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry)
• Cloud services (preferred Azure)
• Document database (MongoDB)
• Relational database management system (preferred PostgreSQL)
• Web Servers, load balancers, forward and reverse proxies (Nginx, Squid)
• Messaging system (preferred Solace)
• Event Streaming (preferred Kafka)
• Issue tracking / agile project management tool (Jira, ServiceNow)
• IAM (Okta)
• Secret management (Hashicorp Vault)
• Experience with Staticand Dynamic Application Security Testing is considered as an advantage.
• Professional qualification in relevant fields is considered as an advantage.