Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer
Department: Tech Operations
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Portugal
Reporting To: Taras Kapanaiko
Description
We offer a hybrid working style, with an office in Coimbra and plans to open offices in Aveiro and Porto in the future. This approach gives team members the flexibility to work remotely while also coming together in the office for collaboration and teamwork.
About Intermedia
About the role:
We are looking for an SRE to improve reliability and operational readiness with a strong focus on metrics, alerting, and event management. You will build and maintain monitoring using Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, integrate alerts and events with BigPanda, and participate in on-call rotations to drive fast incident response and continuous improvement across Windows and Linux environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and operate metrics/monitoring platforms: Prometheus and/or VictoriaMetrics (scrape configs, exporters, recording rules)
- Design and maintain alerting strategy: thresholds, anomaly detection where applicable, alert routing, deduplication, and noise reduction
- Integrate monitoring/alerting and events with BigPanda (correlation, enrichment, routing, incident workflows)
- Create and maintain dashboards and operational visibility (Grafana or equivalent)
- Develop and maintain runbooks, operational playbooks, and incident response procedures
- Participate in on-call shifts: triage alerts, manage incidents, coordinate response, and lead communication during outages
- Perform root-cause analysis, postmortems, and implement corrective/preventive actions
- Improve service reliability via SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, and automation to reduce toil
- Support monitoring for core infrastructure and services on Windows and Linux, including HA components and clusters
- Collaborate with DevOps/Engineering to instrument applications and standardize telemetry (metrics, logs, traces where applicable)
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Experience in SRE / Operations / DevOps with production incident ownership
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus and/or VictoriaMetrics (exporters, alert rules, recording rules, troubleshooting)
- Experience integrating alerting/event pipelines with BigPanda (or similar event correlation tools)
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux and Windows systems (networking, OS, services)
- Ability to build reliable alerting with minimal noise (correlation, grouping, suppression, maintenance windows)
- Experience with Git-based workflows for monitoring-as-code and configuration management
Nice to have
- Grafana administration and dashboard design standards
- Log management (ELK/EFK, Loki) and/or tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash) and configuration tools (Ansible)
- Messaging/cache/proxy operations: RabbitMQ, Redis, Nginx
- Experience with Windows clustering or HA environments
- Experience defining SLOs/SLIs and operational KPIs
- Experience in managing VOIP components and protocols (SIP , FreeSwitch, OpenSIP, session border controllers)
- Experience with load balancing components ( F5 LTM, F5 GTM)
· Experience with Virtualization platforms such as VMWare or HyperV
· Experience with administering AWS or Azure tenants
On-call expectations
- Participation in a rotating on-call schedule (including nights/weekends as needed)
- Ownership of incident response: rapid triage, escalation, mitigation, and follow-up improvements
- Commitment to improving monitoring quality to reduce alert fatigue and improve MTTR
