Senior SRE Engineer

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We are on the lookout for a skilled software engineer with a strong background in DevOps and platform engineering to join our Application Observability team. This team plays a critical role in managing stateful services within the Service Reliability and Observability (SRO) department.

We provide engaging tasks in a dynamic environment, paired with technological ownership and the opportunity to propose and implement improvement initiatives in the observability workspace.

The SRO department provides innovative observability solutions and standardised methods to enhance the efficiency and reliability of IT systems for both infrastructure and software engineers.

The Application Observability (AppO) team focuses on driving observability forward by utilising tools such as OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack, Prometheus and Grafana.

You will:

As part of the Application Observability (AppO) team, your responsibilities will include:

Defining and refining monitoring and alerting rules, both for the team and organisation wide
Work together with other teams (Platform and Observability Backend) to enhance performance and fulfil user stories
Leading projects such as Grafana’s migration from on-premises data centers to AWS by planning, defining requirements, supervising and implementing
Improving the deployment of services using Git workflows and ArgoCD
Proposing and validating performance and user experience improvements for AppO services
Addressing issues, implementing preventive measures and managing postmortems and related improvement tasks
Analysing performance, identifying anomalies and defining, documenting and implementing corrective measures
Ensuring compliance with the SLA

Additionally, you will participate in the on-call rotation for team services, which requires the ability to resolve issues (using runbooks) related to:

Elasticsearch
Thanos
Kafka
OpenTelemetry
Grafana
Docker

About you:

A minimum of 5 years of experience as a software engineer, infrastructure engineer or within the SRE domain
Proven experience in ownership roles, including defining strategies, deploying, monitoring, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes
A strong sense of ownership with a proactive, can-do attitude
Hands-on experience with server-side technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS or OpenShift
Expertise in managing observability and monitoring tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, tracing tools or OpenTelemetry
Solid understanding of Python programming (experience with Golang is a significant advantage)
Upper-Intermediate English language skills

We offer:

Monthly salary range from 4560 EUR to 6840 EUR gross (based on your competencies relevant for the job).

Additionally, each Danske Bank employee receives employee benefits package which includes:

Growth opportunities: professional & supportive team, e-learnings, numerous development programs; (incl. professional certificates); 100+ professions for internal mobility opportunities.
Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; additional health insurance; mental well-being practices; partial psychologist counselling compensation; silence and sleep zones at the office; game rooms.
Hybrid working conditions: Work from home up to two days a week; home office budget (after the probation period); modern Danske Campus workplace developed with anthropologist for the best employee experience.
Additional days of leave: for rest, health, volunteering, exams in higher education institutions, and other important activities. Moreover, for seniority with Danske Bank.
Monetary compensation package: accidents & critical diseases insurance; financial support in case of unfortunate events, travel insurance; IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contribution.