Vacature: Site Reliability Engineer for Observability (Freelance) - View vacancy

The Engineering Experience & Platforms domain aims to make life easier for engineers across NN. To strengthen reliability and improve observability across key platforms, NN is looking for an interim Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement and embed a scalable observability foundation.

What you are going to do

The assignment focuses on setting up an OpenTelemetry collector layer for sources including Azure Databricks, AWS Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes, AWS and Azure. You will define and implement SLIs, SLOs and SLAs for the Portable Stack domain and AI domain, and enable teams to use the new observability capabilities effectively.

What we offer you

Our people are the driving force behind our organisation. We value the knowledge and expertise you bring. We believe that your temporary commitment can take our organisation to a higher level. We offer you:

• Competitive hourly rate depending on your knowledge and experience
• Project starts 1st of August 2026 and has a duration of 6 to 9 months
• Hybrid way of working, partly from home and partly from the office
• International working environment with loads of knowledge sharing

Who you are

You are an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong production experience in Kubernetes and containerized workloads. You have hands-on cloud engineering experience in Azure and/or AWS, including infrastructure as code and GitOps-based deployments. You bring deep observability expertise across metrics, logs and traces, using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo or similar. You are comfortable defining and managing SLOs, SLIs and error budgets, and you have a structured approach to incident management, root cause analysis and reliability improvements. Automation skills in Python, Bash or Go are expected, as well as solid knowledge of CI/CD and safe deployment practices. You communicate clearly and work effectively with development teams to embed reliability into the software delivery lifecycle.

Who you will work with

You will work closely with the newly formed observability team, the domain architect and the Principal Engineer of the Kubernetes domain. You will also align with other teams in the domain to deliver a practical, scalable solution that raises SRE maturity across NN.

Any questions?

Do you have any questions about the job or the procedure? Please contact Amy Brouwer, amy.brouwer@nn-group.com. Are you unsure whether you meet the criteria 100%? We would like to encourage you to apply anyway. We are curious about your unique qualities!

Stel je vraag aan Amy Brouwer Bij NN geloven we dat onze kracht ligt in het omarmen van de volledige diversiteit van de mensheid. We erkennen en waarderen ieders uniciteit en bijdrage, wat ons in staat stelt om te groeien: als individu, als team en als organisatie.

Diversiteit, Gelijkheid en Inclusie zijn verankerd in onze cultuur, die wordt geleid door onze kernwaarden: care, clear en commit. Deze waarden helpen ons om een werkomgeving te creëren waarin iedereen zich welkom, gerespecteerd en trots voelt om deel van uit te maken.

Be you. You have our support.

Ben je net zo enthousiast?

Je wordt doorgestuurd naar NN's recruitment systeem, Workday, waar je kunt solliciteren en jouw sollicitatie kunt beheren.

Kan ik je ergens mee helpen?

Amy Brouwer

Talent Acquisition Specialist freelancers

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Wat gebeurt er na je sollicitatie?

1 Je solliciteert

Jouw CV en motivatie worden door de Talent Acquisition Specialist en manager bekeken. Je ontvangt een reactie binnen twee weken.

2 Interview(s) en online assessment

We streven ernaar binnen een week het eerste gesprek in te plannen. Voorafgaand aan je tweede gesprek vragen we je een online assessment te maken.

3 Aanbod

Zijn we een match? Dan ontvang je van ons direct een aanbieding. De Talent Acquisition Specialist loopt samen met jou het aanbod door.

4 Welkom bij NN

Aanbieding geaccepteerd? Gefeliciteerd! Om alles ook administratief goed te regelen starten we de pre-employment screening en sturen we jouw arbeidsovereenkomst toe.