Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid set up), Hoofddorp (NL)

at  Swiss Re

Location: Hoofddorp, NL
This role presents an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team at a pivotal moment of transformation. As part of a strategic transaction announced by Swiss Re, our business is set to transition into the Allianz Direct Group in the coming months. This move marks an important transition as the business becomes part of Allianz Direct, paving the way for future growth and providing new opportunities to contribute within one of the world’s leading insurance groups. As part of a diverse, hybrid team spanning Europe, envision moving fluidly between your home office and our office hub.

ABOUT YOU

You are a fast, continuous-learning problem-solver with passion for infrastructure engineering and development of distributed systems. Moreover, you are appreciative person and standout colleague who cares about individuals and setting growth paths for them. If yes - we are looking for YOU!
Can you see yourself taking on this new challenge? Welcome aboard!

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at IptiQ, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, stability, and scalability of our company’s cloud systems and infrastructure. You will shape the technology platform that fulfils our business and product vision, bringing value to our customers and partners by redefining the traditional insurance proposition. This role requires tackling complex challenges in a multi-tenant, distributed infrastructure by designing, implementing, and testing highly automated solutions to offer our end customers an amazing experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• End-to-end engagement, from inception to production, in designing, deploying, operating, and continuously improving performance and fault-tolerance of high-availability services in multiple environments
• Deliver high-quality code and solutions with a strong focus on automation, infrastructure as code, and security.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to operate production systems, monitoring service availability, latency, and performance. Take ownership of incident resolution impacting the production platform and lead detailed root cause investigations during postmortems, fostering a culture of seamless collaboration across teams.
• Focus on delivering automated and self-healing systems, continuously engaging in workload planning, and exploring solutions to enhance platform efficiency by leveraging public cloud capabilities.
• Contribute to the development, support, and maintenance of continuous delivery solutions by promoting a shift-left approach to code ownership and empowering external teams with self-service infrastructure capabilities.

Qualified candidates receive feedback concerning their application from our Recruiting team, based on your role and experience we bring you to the next stage.

• Technical interviews: in this stage candidates will go through two different technical rounds, assessing technical knowledge, coding abilities, and problem-solving skills relevant to the role, meeting different engineers of the hiring team
• Meet with the CTO: a discussion about technical topics, past experiences, and cultural fit

For Netherlands the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 100,000] and [EUR 150,000 ] per year (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:

• the requirements, scope, complexity, and responsibilities of the role,
• the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialization, skills and experience