Senior QA & Reliability Engineer

Swiss Re; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Swiss Re is seeking a Senior QA & Reliability Engineer to join their team in Madrid, driving quality in their Azure cloud transformation. You will work closely with platform, product, and delivery teams to ensure cloud solutions are reliable and secure.

The ideal candidate has extensive Azure knowledge, strong engineering expertise, and is passionate about cloud infrastructure. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and performance-based variable compensation.

Formación

• Experience in working in a transformational and complex environment.
• Ability to work with Product Owners, Security Leads, Architects, and engineering teams.
• Proven experience in delivering secure and compliant cloud platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Define and execute test strategies (integration, performance, reliability testing).
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks and CI/CD quality.
• Ensure end-to-end functional and non-functional validation.

Conocimientos

Deep hands-on knowledge of Azure

Hands-on expertise in designing app workload using Cloud Platform Services

Hands-on expertise with chaos engineering tools

Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Strong grounding in Platform engineering concepts

Experience in one or more programming languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

Experience in Azure landing zone design

Experience in DevOps methodology

Good stakeholder communication

Proficiency in English

Descripción del empleo

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in Cloud Infrastructure Engineering? Are you passionate about everything Azure Cloud? Then join us as a Senior QA & Reliability Engineer

About The Role

As a Senior QA & Reliability Engineer, you will be at the heart of Swiss Re's cloud transformation journey — embedding quality and reliability into every layer of our Azure cloud platform. This is not a siloed QA role. You will think holistically, connecting testing, monitoring, and observability as interconnected disciplines that drive real engineering excellence. You will work in a fast‑paced, cross‑functional environment, partnering with platform, product, and delivery teams to ensure our cloud solutions are secure, compliant, and built to last.

Your Main Responsibilities

This role requires a curious, driven, and collaborative engineer who takes pride in building systems that are not only functional but truly dependable. You bring a holistic mindset to reliability—thinking about quality, monitoring, and testing as interconnected disciplines rather than silos. You communicate clearly, thrive in cross‑functional environments, and are energized by solving complex technical challenges with real business impact.

• Define and execute test strategies (integration, performance, reliability testing)
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks and CI/CD quality
• Ensure end‑to‑end functional and non‑functional validation (NFRs)
• Drive test coverage, defect analysis, and root cause resolution
• Establish quality metrics and reporting frameworks
• Proven experience with Microsoft Azure—including Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and related observability and reliability services
• Strong background in reliability or quality engineering—with hands‑on experience designing and executing testing strategies (integration, performance, chaos/resilience testing) in cloud‑native environments
• Solid expertise in monitoring and observability—including the design of logging frameworks, metrics pipelines, distributed tracing, and alerting systems at scale
• Embed quality and reliability practices into SDLC and DevOps pipelines
• Mentor engineers and uplift QA/SRE practices across teams
• Partner with product, platform, and delivery teams to align quality with business goals

About The Team

The Public Cloud Platform Delivery Team is a unit in the Public Cloud Transformation department. The team focuses on platform operations that manage the overall Azure platform setup, security policies, and service operations. Enable application teams to deliver secure, compliant, and innovative solutions that increase business value. Partner with application delivery teams to innovate, deliver and operate solutions in a fast, secure and compliant way to enable and increase business value.

The Public Cloud Platform Delivery's mission is to

• Design, build and operate secure and compliant cloud platforms and shared services and tools to enhance value‑driven adoption.
• Provide an efficient engineering experience via platforms and services aligned with Cloud Technology Management steering & guidance.

About You

The following proven technical skills will be required

• Deep hands‑on knowledge of Azure
• Hands‑on expertise in designing app workload using Cloud Platform Services (SaaS, and PaaS).>
• Hands‑on expertise with chaos engineering tools (e.g., Azure Chaos Studio, Gremlin, or similar)
• Hands‑on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Bicep and CI/CD Azure DevOps pipeline integration for automated quality and reliability checks
• Strong grounding in Platform engineering concepts: golden paths, paved road tooling, self‑service automation, and internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• Experience in one or more programming languages: PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Experience in Azure landing zone design, platform automation design, DevSecOps tooling, network topology & connectivity, access management & privileged identity design, platform monitoring, security architecture, high availability architecture design.
• Experience in DevOps methodology (preferably DevSecOps), both technically and organisationally, including continuous deployment, delivery pipelines and test environments.
• Good stakeholder communication. Ability to work with Product Owners, Security Leads, Architects and engineering teams.
• At ease working in a transformational and complex environment at a fast‑pace and getting things done.
• Proficiency in English is required.

Role

For Spain, the base salary range for this position is between EUR 60,000 and EUR 100,000 (for a full‑time role). The specific salary offered considers: the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance‑based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location‑specific benefits. Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance‑based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting‑edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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