Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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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: youll drive modernization shape operational best practices mentor engineers and collaborate across products and regions to deliver resilient high-performing systems.

What will you 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.

Qualifications Skills & Experience Required

• 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.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in regulated industries (pharma/healthcare) with understanding of validation and compliance requirements.
• Experience designing or operating cloud-native analytics platforms and multi-tenant services.
• Leadership experience in building and scaling engineering teams or center-of-excellence functions.

What we offer

• 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

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