Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people, we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience. 

The opportunity

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries. 

We are proud of: 

• The work we do and the innovation we drive 
• Our values of share, care, and dare 
• A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity, and autonomy 
• Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration 

 

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.

You are someone with 5 years of experience in the field of software engineering, DevOps engineering, QA engineering, and/or cloud engineering, of which at least the last 2 years as a dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. You feel comfortable taking the lead, making decisions, and know how to mobilize and motivate people to set things in motion. In your current role, people come to you for advice on what to look for to determine the robustness of their production environments, advice for reliable deployment procedures, assistance in the analysis of failure scenarios, and ideas on how to mitigate or remediate those.

Role responsibilities

• 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.

 

Must have qualifications

To be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications: 

• 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 on a production environment of a public-facing online service with high business value and preferably high traffic in a 24x7 fashion.
• You have experience working in corporate environments.
• You have experience 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 are APM systems such as Datad