Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Valtech is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our global team of 6,000 professionals in more than 60 offices worldwide!

Are you passionate about Site Reliability Engineering, do you have an eye for SLIs, SLOs, and automation, do you hate toil and intend to do something about it, and does it excite you to get things done in close collaboration with people around the globe? Would you like the freedom to choose to either work from the comfort of your home and also have the opportunity to visit any of our offices close to you? Then you might be the person we’re looking for! Keep reading to find out.

Valtech and Site Reliability Engineering

Valtech is a leading global agency in the business of digital transformation. We help our client to transform their business into a true digital experience. In this mission, we design, build, and run large-scale global experience and commerce platforms in co-creation and cooperation with our clients. Experience and commerce platforms have drastically evolved over the last years in complex ecosystems that tie together multiple services of multiple vendors – also known as MACH or composable architecture. As a founding member of MACH Alliance, a group that educates enterprises on best-of-breed Microservices, APIs, Cloud, and Headless (MACH) technology, Valtech pioneers in how to properly build and manage those complex ecosystems. Site reliability engineering is at the core of our vision how this modern-day distributed ecosystem should and can be managed.

The Ideal Candidate

• You are assertive with good communicative skills, capable of taking the lead and coaching a development team to make the right choices.
• You have experience with incident management in a production environment of a public-facing online service with high business value and preferably high traffic in a 24×7 fashion.
• You have experience in working in corporate environments.
• You have experience in programming and scripting.
• You have at least basic knowledge of serverless services in one or more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• You have extensive knowledge of and experience with various monitoring systems, amongst which APM systems such as Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• You have knowledge of and experience with various pipelining tools, such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, and Jenkins.
• You have knowledge of and experience with microservices-related technology: Docker, and Kubernetes.
• You have a good conceptual understanding of software architecture and system thinking.
• You have worked as an engineer in a DevOps context.
• You have an excellent command of English (C1 or above).

Are familiar with the following technologies:

• Datadog (or APM equivalent)
• Argos CI/CD
• Java / Springboot
• Kafka
• Kubernetes / EKS
• AWS
• Have worked within the context of publicly accessible, highly available eCommerce platforms.
• Have experience working in an international context with on- and off-shore teams.

The Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you are the bridge between software development and operations. You help us to deliver reliable speed to our clients, allowing them to leverage the benefits of continuous deployment without losing grip on customer experience. You will work with our multidisciplinary teams in an essential DevOps way of working where your main responsibility is to keep everyone focused on production while creating the facilities to do so.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Work with teams to define SLIs and SLOs
• Creating systems for observability
• Work with teams to analyze failure scenarios and possible mitigations.
• (Assisting to) create runbooks to remediate or prevent failure scenarios.
• Reduce work that does not add value.
• Participate and facilitate incident management including On Call Duty.

Benefits

• Private health insurance
• Education program
• Wellbeing program
• Work from home
• Social events
• Food vouchers
• Company-sponsored Multisport card
• Competitive conditions
• Challenging projects
• Cool colleagues
• Honest feedback

You can not only become a part of constant evolution but can lead the change. The more we grow – the more opportunities there are to take responsibility, implement your creative ideas, and be the innovator and driver rather than the task executor.

Say hello to your future. Apply!