SRE – Cloud Security and Observability

Making a difference and driving positive change is what we do every day at Rapid Circle. Our Cloud Pioneers help our clients in their digital transformation. Are you someone who goes for constant, positive change? Then this vacancy is for you

As a Cloud Pioneer at Rapid Circle, you will work with our customers on different projects. For example, making impact in the healthcare sector, by making research data safely available. But also, awesome projects in the manufacturing or energy market make this job very challenging.

At Rapid Circle we are curious and are constantly improving our expertise to help customers find their way in a rapidly changing world. We share our knowledge and discover new ways to learn.

Rapid Circle is growing rapidly and are therefore looking for the right person for the role. You will be given lots of freedom to develop personally. We also have a lot of in-house knowledge (MVPs) within the Netherlands, Australia, and India. By working closely with your (international) colleagues, you can continue to challenge yourself and create your own growth path. Freedom, entrepreneurship, and development are key at Rapid Circle, so also in the role of a Site Reliability Engineer.

• Develop, manage, and optimize Terraform modules and deployments across multiple environments.
• Handle SRE operational duties including responding to pull requests and ensuring smooth continuous integration and delivery processes.
• Maintain and fine-tune applications for optimal performance, ensuring they meet specified requirements.
• Explore and experiment with new technologies through Proof-of-Concepts to enhance existing functionalities or discover new opportunities.
• Automate deployment, configuration, and operational processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Collaborate with development teams to guide system architecture and design, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Implement and manage observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and New Relic to ensure all critical services are monitored effectively.
• Develop custom reliability tools and frameworks for use by engineering teams.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for critical systems, lead incident responses, and conduct thorough post-mortem analyses.
• Drive system and process efficiencies including capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring, and root cause analysis.
• Act as a consultant within the organization for best practices in infrastructure management and assist teams in effective infrastructure utilization.
• Play a key role in capacity planning to help teams prepare for scaling and growth.

Must Have

• In-depth knowledge of cloud service providers like Azure or AWS, with a professional or specialty level certification (security certification is a plus).
• Strong understanding of REST and/or Graph APIs.
• Background in DevSecOps or cloud security, with experience in cloud security posture management applications.
• Experience with state machines such as AWS Step Functions or Azure Logic Apps.
• Deep knowledge in telemetry and observability; experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or DynaTrace is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes with CKA/CKAD certification being advantageous.
• Expertise in Terraform, with experience in setting up pipelines for multi-environment deployments.
• Good programming skills in high-level languages, with a preference for Python. Go, or any other compiled languages is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and New Relic.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• An open mindset with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and learning practices.

About Cloud Native Engineering
The Cloud Native Engineering Practice is an organization of engineers who work with our production services throughout their entire life cycle, from design and architecture, through implementation, deployment, and sustaining operation. SRE's delivers important system properties: reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability, for the products and platforms that our customers use every day.

SREs work in high-performance squads with expertise on large scale system reliability and in-depth understanding of critical business components architecture, as well as dedicated engineering teams building comprehensive tools, platform and infrastructure.

We need your skills and passion to help make it happen