Site Reliability Engineer II

Freelance Site Reliability Engineer II 12 month contract role as an Independent Contractor Hybrid - onsite 1 day a week in Amsterdam €117 per hour plus VAT Join a team that treats operations as a software problem. As a Site Reliability Engineer II (SRE II), you’ll help keep systems and services reliable, performant, scalable, and observable—while actively reducing operational toil through automation. This role blends hands-on engineering with end-to-end service ownership: you’ll design and implement technical solutions based on business needs, collaborate with partner teams when required, and take part in incident response to protect availability and customer experience. Required SkillsSoftware engineering capability to build, refactor, and simplify applications using relevant development languages, standard libraries, and proven design patternsStrong testing discipline and ability to follow standard testing techniques aligned to a defined test strategySystem and service reliability focus across availability, performance, scalability, latency, efficiency, and observabilitySoftware systems design skills: evaluate architecture options with consideration for cost, business needs, technology requirements, and emerging approachesEnd-to-end service ownership, including production deployments, operations, monitoring of health/metrics, and actioning breaches of key indicatorsIncident management experience: mitigate customer impact within SLA, contribute to post-incident reviews, and deliver long-term fixes via root cause analysisAutomation and toil reduction mindset: build small software features and improvements that reduce human effort and operational complexityObservability skills: monitoring and alerting improvements, capacity planning awareness, and partnering with product/development teams on meaningful metricsClear communication and collaboration skills, including active listening and adapting communication style to different audiencesDemonstrated critical thinking and ability to drive structured, measurable (“SMART”) improvementsCommitment to security, integrity, and quality standards and best practicesNice to Have SkillsExperience contributing architectural guidance, including challenging design rationale and aligning solutions with functional and non-functional requirementsFamiliarity with continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks to reduce risk and accelerate feedbackExperience creating and maintaining operational documentation such as runbooks and OpDocsBackground partnering with vendors or evaluating tooling through prototyping/spikesPreferred Education and ExperienceBachelor’s degree (preferred)3–5 years of relevant experience with broad job knowledge in reliability/operations/software engineering workOther RequirementsParticipation in incident response for issues affecting the team’s servicesAbility to work primarily within the team scope, with occasional cross-team collaboration as neededBring your engineering mindset, curiosity, and reliability-first approach—apply now to help build systems that scale smoothly, recover quickly, and keep improving every day.