Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Salt; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performance platform team in Amsterdam on a 6-month hybrid contract. You will own end-to-end reliability, lead incident response, and drive automation across CI/CD and IaC to support a cloud migration and a high-volume event processing platform.

You will collaborate with software engineers to improve observability, capacity planning, and platform efficiency, while maintaining strong on-call coverage and ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience as SRE/DevOps in high-scale production.
• Strong incident management and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with cloud migrations and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end reliability of production services.
• Lead incident response, RCA, post-mortems, remediation.
• Improve observability with monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and IaC solutions.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
• Support performance testing, capacity planning, and scalability.
• Contribute to cloud migration of a large event platform.
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotation and maintain service availability.

Skills

SRE

Platform Engineer

DevOps

Java

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

On-call

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK/EFK

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Travel – Amsterdam

Duration: 6-Month Contract

Start: ASAP

Hybrid: 2 days a week (on-call 1/7)

My client is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performing platform team responsible for operating and evolving a mission-critical event processing platform that handles billions of events every day.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems, drive operational excellence, and support a major cloud migration initiative while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of a business-critical platform.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own end-to-end reliability of production services.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, post-mortems, and remediation activities.
• Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and dashboards.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve platform efficiency.
• Support performance testing, capacity planning, and scalability initiatives.
• Contribute to the migration of a large-scale event streaming platform to a cloud-native architecture.
• Collaborate with software engineers and platform teams to improve reliability, resilience, and operational maturity.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation and help maintain high service availability.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, Platform Engineer, or DevOps Engineer in high-scale production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Java
• Kafka
• AWS
• Terraform, Helm, GitOps, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Experience with modern observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, Datadog, or similar.
• Strong background in incident management, production troubleshooting, and reliability engineering.
• Experience operating and scaling distributed systems handling high transaction or event volumes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Confluent Cloud.
• Experience migrating Kafka workloads from on-premises environments to cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of large-scale event-driven architectures and stream processing systems.
• Experience optimising platform performance, scalability, and operational costs.