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, [email protected]. 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!
Skills Required
- Production experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Hands-on cloud engineering experience in Azure and/or AWS
- Experience with OpenTelemetry and implementing an OpenTelemetry collector layer
- Deep observability expertise across metrics, logs and traces (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo or similar)
- Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets
- Structured incident management, root cause analysis and reliability improvement experience
- Infrastructure as Code and GitOps-based deployment experience
- Automation skills in Python, Bash or Go
- Solid knowledge of CI/CD and safe deployment practices
- Strong communication and ability to work with development teams to embed reliability
What We Do
NN Group is an international financial services company, active in 11 countries, with a strong presence in a number of European countries and Japan. Our roots lie in the Netherlands, with a rich history of more than 175 years. With our 16,000 employees, NN Group provides retirement services, pensions, insurance, banking and investments to approximately 19 million customers. NN Group includes Nationale-Nederlanden, NN, ABN AMRO Insurance, Movir, AZL, BeFrank, OHRA and Woonnu. NN Group opened for trading on 2 July 2014 on Euronext Amsterdam under the symbol ‘NN’ after its initial public offering (IPO). For more than 175 years, our company has merged, grown and changed, but the core of who we are has remained the same. At NN Group, we put our resources, expertise, and networks to use for the well-being of our customers, the advancement of our communities, the preservation of our planet, and for the promotion of a stable, inclusive, and sustainable economy. Our purpose is to help people care for what matters most to them. Because what matters to them matters to us.
