Senior Site Reliability EngineerVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• BSc in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience; advanced degree a plus.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, Platform, or DevOps engineering with proven ownership of reliability for production systems.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP experience valuable) and cloud-native services.
• Strong skills with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), Git-based workflows, and mature CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience defining and operating SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and error budget processes.
• Proficiency with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing).
• Solid programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, or similar) and experience building automation and tooling.
• Strong knowledge of networking (VPCs, VPNs, load balancing, firewalls) and cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with platform engineering patterns, multi-tenant platforms, and managing analytics or data platforms is a plus.
• Familiarity with Conversational BI tools, Power Platform, and emerging LLM/Copilot concepts.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; experience working with global, cross-functional teams.
• Relevant certifications (AWS Professional, Kubernetes, etc.) are a plus.

What you’ll do

• Lead reliability efforts: define and own SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, availability goals, and improvement plans for services under your scope.
• Design and implement robust, scalable architectures and automation that minimize operational toil and support rapid delivery.
• Build and maintain IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing to ensure consistent, auditable deployments.
• Drive observability and proactive monitoring: implement metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting that enable data-driven reliability improvements.
• Lead incident response for complex issues, coordinate cross-team resolution, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive preventative actions.
• Establish and codify operational frameworks, runbooks, and standard methodologies to raise operational maturity across teams.
• Coach and mentor SRE and DevOps engineers; foster knowledge sharing and create a pipeline of technical leaders.
• Partner with product engineering, security, platform, and vendor teams to align technology roadmaps, compliance, and lifecycle management (patching, upgrades).
• Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and troubleshooting for distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, installation qualification/validation artifacts, and compliance evidence when required.

About the position

Join a global healthcare biopharma technology team in Prague as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer . You will own reliability, scalability, and security for critical platforms and applications that support medicines, vaccines, and animal health products worldwide. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership: you’ll drive modernization, shape operational best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across products and regions to deliver resilient, high-performing systems.

Benefits

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral programme
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner
• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more