Site Reliability Engineer

Salt; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

On-site two days a week

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Amsterdam to join a high-performing platform team responsible for operating a mission-critical event processing platform.

This contract role (3–6 months) offers hybrid work with two days onsite, exposure to large-scale distributed systems, cloud migrations, CI/CD, IaC, and a rotating on-call schedule to ensure reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience as an SRE/DevOps in high-scale production environments.
• Hands-on with API management, AWS, IaC tools, CI/CD, observability tooling.
• Experience with distributed systems and high transaction volumes.
• Excellent communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end reliability of production services.
• Lead incident response and post-mortems.
• Improve observability with monitoring and dashboards.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and IaC solutions.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
• Support performance testing and capacity planning.
• Contribute to cloud migration initiatives.
• Collaborate across engineering teams on reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotation for high availability.

Skills

SRE experience

Incident management

Cross-team comms

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salt is currently hiring a Site Reliability Engineer for a client of ours in Amsterdam.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Amsterdam

Duration: 3-6 Month Contract

Start: ASAP

Hybrid: 2 days a week onsite

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:
• API Management
• 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.