Golang Job: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Company

Swiss RE

Location

Madrid - Spain

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

About the team

Part of Swiss Re's Group Digital & Technology organisation, Service Insights provides a continuous overview about the health for all Swiss Re's 1,600+ applications and supporting systems. A solid team with international members located across 9 countries, Service Insights' scope covers the core capabilities of Application Portfolio Management, Service Asset and Configuration Management, Logging, Monitoring, System Data Analytics as well as Orchestration and Systems Integration.

The Logging & Monitoring squad develops and operates state-of-the-art logging, monitoring and event management platforms to collect application behaviour information, detect / limit service disruption and provide the associated reporting capabilities. Our ambition is to help the application and platform owners identify any growing risks, have a clear understanding of their SLAs, reduce the mean time to resolution and be ahead of the curve with regards to long term trends.

About the role

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be part of a squad of very dynamic, highly motivated and diverse engineers with 9 different nationalities, developing and operating state-of-the-art logging, monitoring & event management platforms. With your open mind, you will be providing consultancy around logging and monitoring to application, product and service owners as well as developers across Swiss Re, for them to better understand their workloads running in multi-cloud platforms and improve our cloud infrastructure and application oversight and stability, as well as our service resilience.

About you

We are looking forward to your application, particularly when you possess:

  • 5+ years' software development, continuous integration/deployment and system engineering experience in cloud-native ecosystems.
  • Hands on expertise in open-source application and infrastructure monitoring tools, e.g. Influx stack (TICK), elastic stack (ELK), Prometheus and Grafana, as well as how these are deployed and operated in modern hybrid cloud environment, i.e. through container orchestration system such as Kubernetes running in a cloud environment such as Azure, including the performance, network and security implications.
  • Experience in a modern language e.g. Golang, Java and in scripting languages (Shell, PowerShell, Python).
  • Passion for sharing knowledge, through interactive sessions as well as documentation.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to focus on details without losing track of the bigger picture.
  • Excellent oral and written English skills, additional language skills are a plus.

About Swiss Re


Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.


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