Site Reliability Expert

Job summary

Valtech is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Expert to lead observability, reliability, and operational excellence initiatives within complex cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in complex production environments.
• Strong understanding of Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service Level Objectives (SLO), Error Budgets, and symptom-based alerting.
• Proven expertise with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics.
• Practical experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), monitoring instrumentation, alert management, role-based access control (RBAC), SLO management, and tagging governance.
• Good knowledge of OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and distributed tracing.
• Experience in composable architectures based on microservices.
• Practical experience in production environments with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience in infrastructure and operations automation.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Bash, Python.
• Experience with GitLab CI or other CI/CD pipeline management tools.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end.
• Excellent communication skills in French and English, both oral and written.
• Rigorous, autonomous, and highly organized with strong documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement observability strategy and governance standards.
• Design, deploy, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and visualization solutions using Dynatrace or equivalent tools.
• Establish and promote SRE best practices including SLI, SLO, Error Budgets, and symptom-based alerting.
• Collaborate with development and product teams to enhance system reliability, performance, and resilience.
• Set standards for tagging, governance, responsibility assignment, dashboards, and alert management.
• Support and train teams lacking specific observability expertise.
• Lead technical projects, manage priorities, and ensure timely delivery within defined budgets.
• Analyze and resolve complex incidents in distributed microservices architectures.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate effectively with distributed teams in an international context.

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