Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – OpenShift & Observability

Location: Leiden area, Netherlands

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Role Summary

Join a growing engineering team shaping one of the most strategic platform initiatives at Swift, the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services. You'll help build, operate and evolve a modern OpenShift platform that will host the next generation of applications across the organisation.

This is a hands-on Senior SRE role focused on platform reliability, observability, automation and operational excellence. You'll work alongside highly skilled engineers across Europe and the US, helping define reliability standards and enabling development teams to successfully adopt cloud-native technologies at enterprise scale.

What you'll do

• Shape and operate Swift's enterprise OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability, scalability and resilience for critical applications.
• Lead the design and implementation of observability capabilities across metrics, logs and traces.
• Establish and evolve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that drive measurable reliability improvements.
• Develop and maintain scalable monitoring and logging solutions using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK).
• Partner with application teams to onboard workloads to the platform and promote Site Reliability Engineering best practices.
• Drive incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident learning to improve platform reliability over time.
• Design, develop and enhance platform services and capabilities on OpenShift to improve customer experience, security, scalability and operational efficiency.
• Operate, maintain and continuously improve enterprise OpenShift clusters, including upgrades, lifecycle management, security compliance and platform resilience.
• Collaborate across two closely connected squads covering platform engineering and application onboarding, providing opportunities to contribute across multiple areas of the platform.
• Eliminate operational toil through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Automate operational processes through Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and engineering-first approaches.
• Participate in on-call rotation, helping ensure the reliability of services supporting business-critical workloads.

What you bring (Must-haves)

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or Senior DevOps Engineer in complex production environments.
• Strong hands-on expertise with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and operating observability solutions, including logging, monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Practical experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets.
• Strong understanding of production operations, incident response and reliability engineering principles.
• A passion for automation, continuous improvement and solving complex technical challenges.

Nice to have

• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps operating models.
• Python development or scripting skills.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible or similar technologies.
• Exposure to bare-metal Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments

Hybrid & location

Location: Near Leiden, Netherlands.
Working model: Hybrid working in line with company policy, with regular collaboration across international engineering teams.

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact accessibility-Sysgroup@swift.com or indicate this in your application.

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All requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.