Senior SRE - Observability & Cloud Reliability

Swiss Re; Madrid; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Swiss Re is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for our Logging & Monitoring squad in Madrid. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of multi-cloud observability platforms to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.

Focus on building automated solutions and proactive problem detection. The role emphasizes mastering Unix/Linux, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana dashboards, with Go as a core programming skill.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in hybrid cloud environments (Azure and on‑prem).
• Experience with open-source observability tools (LGTM stack, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing).
• Bonus: familiarity with Elasticsearch, K6, Faro.
• Solid background in CI/CD pipelines and system engineering in distributed, cloud‑native solutions.
• Programming skills in Go (bonus if you know Python, Java, .NET, or Bash).
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, with balance of detail orientation and big‑picture thinking.
• Enthusiasm for creating insightful Grafana dashboards.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills (additional languages are a plus).

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of designing, deploying, operating, and continuously improving the performance and fault-tolerance of large-scale, multi-cloud solutions.
• Ensure system security, data integrity, and high availability across all logging and monitoring platforms.
• Develop and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks to enable proactive issue detection and swift resolution.
• Collaborate with IT and engineering teams to onboard services onto our platforms and consult on best SRE practices.
• Stay ahead of technology trends and evaluate new solutions that strengthen our observability ecosystem.
• Create and maintain technical support documentation, while providing hands‑on troubleshooting when required.

Skills

Unix/Linux

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Grafana dashboards

Go

CI/CD pipelines

English

Tools

LGTM stack

K6

Faro

Elasticsearch

Job description

Swiss Re is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for our Logging & Monitoring squad in Madrid. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of multi-cloud observability platforms to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.

Focus on building automated solutions and proactive problem detection. The role emphasizes mastering Unix/Linux, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana dashboards, with Go as a core programming skill.