Corporate SRE

At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.

We are looking for a Corporate Site Reliability Engineer to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide.

The job in brief: 

Job Title -  Corporate SRE

Working model -  full remote from Portugal

Team -  you will join the Corporate SRE  team within the IT department.

Level - Professional 

Location -  Portugal

Contract -  Permanent

What your impact will be:

As a Corporate Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of our critical internal platform and services across multiple environments. You'll join Platform, Security & ITSM area with a specialised focus on corporate infrastructure and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer the virtual environment located on-premises
• Manage part of our cloud infrastructure running on AWS, ensuring the balance between performances and cost efficiency.
• Maintain essential corporate services including SSO, DNS, databases, backup solutions, monitoring, and email system.
• Support infrastructure and virtual machines hosting critical corporate applications such as ERP, HR, and Business Intelligence systems
• Partner with application owners and cross-functional technology teams to deliver robust support and innovative solutions
• Work closely with other SRE teams, DSE, and Security teams to ensure overall platform reliability

Your expertise

• + 3 years experience as SRE / System Administrator

• Extensive knowledge creating, managing and supporting Windows and Linux servers

• Extensive knowledge creating, managing and supporting virtual environments (VMware)

• Extensive knowledge of Active Directory, GPO, security policies, SSO (ADFS), DNS, DFS

• Strong experience on infrastructure as a code (Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab, CI/CD pipelines)

• Strong experience on maintaining systems updated and fixing security bugs

• Strong experience on monitoring, logging and troubleshooting (Graylog, CheckMK)

• Strong experience server hardware support and maintenance (HP DL, iLO)

• Strong experience on alerts reported by XDR systems (SentinelOne)

• Strong experience on Microsoft SQL server databases

• Good knowledge of AWS cloud (EC2 instances, networking), Backup systems (Veeam), SAN and NAS (HP, Pure storage and QNAP), Windows and Linux scripting, load balancing (HAProxy), mailing systems (Postfix), Windows file servers

• Base networking knowledge (TCP/IP, routing, switch, firewalling)

Perks of working with us:

How we work together:

- An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities)

- Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays
- Flexible start and end of the working day
- Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations

How we learn together:

- Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.

- Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content

Other perks:
- 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes

- Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues

- Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares

- We support our employees through life's significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.

Wish you were here? We do, too!

Selection process steps*:

- HR interview (10-30 minutes)

- Test step offline

- 1st interview (Manager): Test review

- 2nd interview (Director)

- Offer extended
(*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)

Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Eligibility criteria:
By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.