Site Reliability Engineer

Harnham; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 57,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Ownership of platform reliability

AI operations exposure

Job summary

Harnham in Rotterdam is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own AI platform operations and overall service reliability in a fast-moving technology environment.

You will shape SLOs/SLIs, lead observability, and drive CI/CD improvements while optimizing cloud costs and scalability. This role offers hands-on ownership, a collaborative international team, and opportunities to work with cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience operating high-traffic distributed production systems.
• Strong SRE principles, observability, and platform operations.
• Hands-on with GCP and IaC (Terraform).
• Proactive automation and incident management mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLIs, and error budget policies across critical services.
• Lead initiatives across observability, distributed tracing, monitoring, and incident response.
• Improve deployment safety through CI/CD best practices, automated rollbacks, and progressive delivery techniques.
• Own AI platform operations, including runtime performance, scalability, reliability, and cost optimisation.
• Drive FinOps initiatives across cloud infrastructure, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and manage costs.
• Lead incident management activities and develop automated safeguards to prevent recurring issues.
• Enhance resilience through capacity planning, load testing, disaster recovery planning, and service reliability improvements.
• Manage infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation practices.
• Build tooling, runbooks, and self-service capabilities that improve the developer experience and reduce operational overhead.

Skills

SRE fundamentals

Observability

Monitoring

Linux

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Automation

FinOps awareness

Cloud-native platforms

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & AI Platform Operations)

Rotterdam, 5 days in office

Up to €95k annually + benefits

This is an opportunity to take ownership of reliability, observability, cloud infrastructure, and AI platform operations within a fast-moving technology environment. You will play a key role in building the guardrails, automation, and operational excellence that enable engineering teams to innovate at pace while maintaining stability and performance.

The Company

They are a technology-driven organisation undergoing significant platform transformation, modernising core systems and investing heavily in cloud-native architecture and AI-enabled capabilities. Their engineering culture is focused on innovation, automation, and continuous improvement. You will join a collaborative environment where technical expertise is valued and where your work will have a direct impact on business performance and customer experience.

The Role

• Define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLIs, and error budget policies across critical services.
• Lead initiatives across observability, distributed tracing, monitoring, and incident response.
• Improve deployment safety through CI/CD best practices, automated rollbacks, and progressive delivery techniques.
• Own AI platform operations, including runtime performance, scalability, reliability, and cost optimisation.
• Drive FinOps initiatives across cloud infrastructure, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and manage costs.
• Lead incident management activities and develop automated safeguards to prevent recurring issues.
• Enhance resilience through capacity planning, load testing, disaster recovery planning, and service reliability improvements.
• Manage infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation practices.
• Build tooling, runbooks, and self-service capabilities that improve the developer experience and reduce operational overhead.

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience operating high-traffic, distributed production systems.
• Deep knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles, monitoring, and platform operations.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across Linux environments, cloud infrastructure, containers, databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience with observability tooling, monitoring platforms, and distributed tracing.
• Familiarity with modern software engineering environments and cloud-native architectures.
• Understanding of AI workloads, LLM integrations, API-driven services, or automated processing pipelines.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with a passion for automation and operational excellence.

What They Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• The opportunity to shape platform reliability and AI operations at scale.
• Real ownership and influence across engineering and infrastructure strategy.
• An international and collaborative working environment.
• Clear opportunities for professional growth and career progression.
• The chance to work on cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies.