Site Reliability Engineer for Observability (Freelance)

NN Group; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 82,656 - 123,984; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NS Business card

27 vacation days

3 Diversity days

13th month

Vacation allowance

Hybrid working

Job summary

NN Group in the Netherlands is seeking an interim Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement and embed a scalable observability foundation across cloud and container platforms.

You will set up an OpenTelemetry collector layer across Azure Databricks, AWS Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes, and cloud services, define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, and enable teams to adopt robust observability while aligning with NN's reliability standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive SRE experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Hands-on cloud engineering with Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience with observability: metrics, logs and traces.
• Experience with IaC and GitOps deployments.
• Experience with incident management and RCA.
• Strong automation skills (Python, Bash or Go).
• Solid CI/CD knowledge and safe deployment practices.
• Clear communication with development teams.

Responsibilities

• Set up an OpenTelemetry collector layer across Azure Databricks, AWS Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes, AWS and Azure.
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs and SLAs for the Portable Stack and AI domains.
• Enable teams to adopt new observability capabilities effectively.
• Work with observability team, domain architect, and Principal Engineer to raise SRE maturity.
• Embed reliability into the software delivery lifecycle.

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Tempo

Python

Bash

Go

CI/CD

Job description

The Engineering Experience & Platforms domain aims to make life easier for engineers across NN. To strengthen reliability and improve observability across key platforms, NN is looking for an interim Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement and embed a scalable observability foundation.

What you are going to do

The assignment focuses on setting up an OpenTelemetry collector layer for sources including Azure Databricks, AWS Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes, AWS and Azure. You will define and implement SLIs, SLOs and SLAs for the Portable Stack domain and AI domain, and enable teams to use the new observability capabilities effectively.

What we offer you

• Competitive hourly rate depending on your knowledge and experience
• Project starts 1st of August 2026 and has a duration of 6 to 9 months
• Hybrid way of working, partly from home and partly from the office
• International working environment with loads of knowledge sharing

Who you are

You are an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong production experience in Kubernetes and containerized workloads. You have hands‑on cloud engineering experience in Azure and/or AWS, including infrastructure as code and GitOps‑based deployments. You bring deep observability expertise across metrics, logs and traces, using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo or similar. You are comfortable defining and managing SLOs, SLIs and error budgets, and you have a structured approach to incident management, root cause analysis and reliability improvements. Automation skills in Python, Bash or Go are expected, as well as solid knowledge of CI/CD and safe deployment practices. You communicate clearly and work effectively with development teams to embed reliability into the software delivery lifecycle.

Who you will work with

You will work closely with the newly formed observability team, the domain architect and the Principal Engineer of the Kubernetes domain. You will also align with other teams in the domain to deliver a practical, scalable solution that raises SRE maturity across NN.

Any questions?

Do you have any questions about the job or the procedure? Please contact Amy Brouwer, [e-mail]. Are you unsure whether you meet the criteria 100%? We would like to encourage you to apply anyway. We are curious about your unique qualities!

We bieden je

• NS Business card, ook privé te gebruiken
• 27 vakantiedagen en 3 Diversiteitsdagen
• 13e maand en vakantiegeld
• Hybride werken