Senior OpenShift Engineer, Observability & Reliability

Swift Software; Leiden; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work pattern

Job summary

Swift is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing European team near Leiden, Netherlands. You will shape and run Swift's OpenShift platform, focusing on reliability, observability, automation and scalable operations for critical financial applications.

You will collaborate with engineers across Europe and the US, drive incident response, implement SLOs/SLAs, and promote GitOps/automation to reduce toil while enhancing security and performance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or Senior DevOps Engineer in complex production environments.
• Hands-on expertise with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and operating observability solutions, including logging, monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Practical experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets.
• Strong understanding of production operations, incident response and reliability engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Shape and operate Swift's enterprise OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability, scalability and resilience for critical applications.
• Lead design and implementation of observability capabilities across metrics, logs and traces.
• Establish and evolve SLIs, SLOs and SLAs to drive reliability improvements.
• Develop and maintain scalable monitoring and logging solutions (ELK).
• Onboard workloads to the platform and promote SRE best practices.
• Drive incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident learning.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Observability

SLIs/SLOs/SLAs

Incident response

Automation

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

ELK

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Swift is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing European team near Leiden, Netherlands. You will shape and run Swift's OpenShift platform, focusing on reliability, observability, automation and scalable operations for critical financial applications.

You will collaborate with engineers across Europe and the US, drive incident response, implement SLOs/SLAs, and promote GitOps/automation to reduce toil while enhancing security and performance.