Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Lely is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong expertise in software engineering and a deep understanding of Azure cloud infrastructure and GitOps.

Our newly formed SRE team sits within the Developer Experience competence center, together with platform engineering & tooling, technology engineering and product security. A strong department with a broad and high expertise level, facilitating and supporting our product development teams worldwide.

You cooperate with colleagues globally, from software developers to product developers, from application specialists to data engineers, working with latest technologies and innovations.

A very divers position which brings extensive possibilities for personal development and growth.

Your profile

As a Senior SRE you have an important and leading role in the development and implementation of our SRE/DevOps strategy. You enjoy implementing and working with modern Site Reliability Engineering, GitOps and CICD principles, technologies and methodologies. By prioritizing continuous improvement and operations, you practice comprehensive DevOps. You proactively identify and implement enhancements in the software development and delivery process. By regularly reviewing processes, tools, and systems, you aim to boost efficiency, effectiveness, and software quality.

Your approach involves monitoring, analyzing root causes, experimenting, and providing feedback loops and coaching to your colleagues. In close collaboration with the team and stakeholders you deliver high-quality solutions and knowledge that improve reliability, scalability, observability and performance. Eliminating toil through automation and leveraging managed solutions to optimize the operation of our infrastructure and products.

As a senior you are proactive in suggesting improvements, ideas, knowledge, and offering help. You and your team educate, mentor, enable and hold accountable the development teams to improve the reliability of their product. Next to that you actively coach team members and developers on best practices in reliability engineering, sharing your expert knowledge in automation, observability and performance optimization.

• 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps role;
• Extensive SRE and software development experience, with a strong background in DevOps practices;
• Comprehensive knowledge of multiple programming languages (.Net, Python, Bash, C#, React, GoLang);
• Proficient in (Azure) cloud platforms and tooling (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu, ArgoCD, GitLab);
• Experienced in using and extending observability tooling like Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and system/application performance monitoring;
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine operational tasks;
• Deep understanding in infrastructure and software development security best practices;
• You have affinity to evangelize technologies, coach and influence others to improve;
• You are flexible and willing to perform on-call duties in a rotation scheme;
• Excellent working experience in English, both verbal and in writing. Dutch is a plus.

The position is full-time (36-40 hours per week) and the primary work location is the head office in Maassluis for 60% of the time, where we are flexible on working hours.

A job for a true inventor, at a company driven by innovation. You will see your ideas come to life as they leave the factory to our customer, the dairy farmer. At the end you will contribute to a sustainable way of farming. 

• Working in an international work environment within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands and also the largest robot producer in Europe. 
• Excellent employment conditions, including up to 8 weeks of vacation and a salary of up to €7200,- with room for growth within the scale. 
• Opportunities for growth where you are in charge of your own development. 
• Space and freedom to innovate, bring in new ideas, and undertake initiatives. We not only offer this, but we also genuinely expect it. It's up to you to come up with ideas and implement them. 
• A team with enthusiastic, helpful colleagues, collaborating with product development, procurement, and other stakeholders. 
• Our Lely Academy offers various training programs, such as personality training or more job-relevant training. If you want to develop yourself but it's not in the curriculum, you discuss it with your manager. 
• The #FitatLely program with our own Lely Gym. A volleyball court, basketball court, football table, and ping pong table where you can challenge your colleagues or take a break from work. 
• Lease-a-Bike scheme to lease a new bike affordably. 
• Additionally, enjoy the services and wide range of coffee and tea from our personal barista at the Lely Campus, who makes the tastiest cappuccinos from fresh milk, directly from our own farmer from the Lely Orbiter, for example. 
• A healthy work-life balance with a hybrid policy where you are 60% on Campus. This is flexible and can be arranged in consultation with your manager. Prefer more time on our modern Campus? You are always welcome (between 06:00 a.m. and 08:00 p.m.).

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We appreciate the interest, but we recruit all our candidates directly. We understand that as intermediaries, you want to present candidates for our great positions and contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment process. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.