Site Reliability Engineer (Freelance/CDI)

Service Description

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) service to join an Engineering team.

The goal of this role is to ensure the reliability, scalability, monitoring, and performance of on-premises services within the organization’s product environment.

The role involves designing and implementing best practices for monitoring and observability while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve systems, processes, uptime, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain monitoring infrastructure
• Create custom dashboards, alerts, and visualization solutions
• Implement distributed tracing and log aggregation systems
• Establish monitoring best practices and SLI/SLO frameworks
• Maintain security compliance for on-premises monitoring tools
• Automate deployment and configuration management
• Collaborate with development teams on application instrumentation
• Participate in on-duty rotations and incident response

Requirements

Core Technologies

• Advanced Grafana
• Prometheus (PromQL)
• OpenTelemetry
• Elasticsearch

Infrastructure

• Linux system administration
• Networking knowledge
• On-premises infrastructure and security

Programming

• Python
• Bash
• Go (for automation)

Experience

• 3+ years experience in monitoring or observability
• 2+ years working with Grafana and Prometheus in production
• Strong Linux administration experience
• Proven experience managing on-premises infrastructure environments

Security

• Knowledge of enterprise security practices
• Understanding of compliance requirements

Additional Skills

• Ability to balance technical trade-offs with business needs
• Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills
• Willingness to participate in 24/7 on-call rotations

Key Deliverables

• Reduced MTTD / MTTR through effective monitoring
• Comprehensive observability across systems
• Automated monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure management
• Security-compliant monitoring practices

Languages

• English: C1 level
• Additional languages are a plus (German, French, or Dutch)