Senior Platform SRE: Reliability & Observability Architect

IG KnowHow; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Mentoring programs

Networking clubs

Volunteer time off

Perks details

Job summary

IG Group is seeking a Senior Platform SRE to own and improve the reliability platform within a hybrid AWS/on-premises environment. The role focuses on observability, SLOs, and automated resilience across hundreds of services and engineers.

You will mentor others, drive incident prevention, and contribute to IG’s reliability standards. The position requires hands-on engineering, chaos testing, and strong collaboration with Platform Engineering and product teams in a fast-paced fintech setting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on observability and instrumentation with OpenTelemetry and production use of monitoring tools.
• Design and maintain SLOs, error budgets, and multi-window burn-rate alerts.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines with blue/green/canary releases and automated rollback.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Nomad in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Production-quality coding in Java and/or Python.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and failure modes.
• Experience with incident management and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tooling.
• Ability to write RFCs and contribute to engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the reliability platform and tooling.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability across services.
• Maintain production readiness including automated deployments and zero-downtime patching.
• Design self-healing capabilities and automated traffic rerouting.
• Run chaos experiments to improve resilience and incident response.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines embedding reliability practices.
• Mentor engineers on reliability patterns and production engineering discipline.
• Collaborate with platform teams to define SLOs on customer journeys.

Skills

Observability engineering

SLOs and error budgets

CI/CD and release engineering

Container orchestration

Software engineering (Java/Python)

Distributed systems

Incident management

Chaos engineering

Standards and governance

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Dynatrace

Grafana

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

HashiCorp Nomad

Terraform

PagerDuty/ServiceNow

Job description

IG Group is seeking a Senior Platform SRE to own and improve the reliability platform within a hybrid AWS/on-premises environment. The role focuses on observability, SLOs, and automated resilience across hundreds of services and engineers.

You will mentor others, drive incident prevention, and contribute to IG’s reliability standards. The position requires hands-on engineering, chaos testing, and strong collaboration with Platform Engineering and product teams in a fast-paced fintech setting.