SRE Lead: Reliability, Automation & Observability

Thrive IT Systems; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrive IT Systems seeks a seasoned Software Engineering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to drive design, development, testing, and operational excellence of enterprise technology solutions. The ideal candidate will bring strong software engineering fundamentals, deep SDLC expertise, extensive test automation experience, and a track record in building reliable, scalable platforms.

Responsibilities include leading end-to-end SDLC, creating automated testing frameworks, shaping CI/CD

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in software engineering and enterprise application development.
• Strong SDLC methodologies and engineering best practices.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks.
• Proven experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) production operations and platform reliability.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices and release automation.
• Strong understanding of system performance scalability availability and resiliency.
• Experience with monitoring observability incident management and operational excellence.
• Excellent analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of high-quality software solutions following modern engineering best practices.
• Drive end-to-end SDLC processes including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Develop and implement automated testing frameworks and strategies to improve software quality and release velocity.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, automated testing, and continuous delivery.
• Apply SRE principles to improve system reliability, scalability, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure service performance and reliability objectives are met.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to streamline software delivery and production support.
• Lead root cause analysis, incident management and post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.
• Champion observability practices through monitoring, logging, and performance analysis.
• Mentor engineering teams on software engineering best practices, test automation, and reliability engineering.

Skills

SDLC methodologies

Test automation

SRE operations

Incident management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Thrive IT Systems seeks a seasoned Software Engineering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to drive design, development, testing, and operational excellence of enterprise technology solutions. The ideal candidate will bring strong software engineering fundamentals, deep SDLC expertise, extensive test automation experience, and a track record in building reliable, scalable platforms.

Responsibilities include leading end-to-end SDLC, creating automated testing frameworks, shaping CI/CD