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We are the way the world moves value - across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.\nWe’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value - a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.\nRole Summary\nJoin a growing engineering team shaping one of the most strategic platform initiatives at Swift, the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services. You'll help build, operate and evolve a modern OpenShift platform that will host the next generation of applications across the organisation.\nThis is a hands-on Senior SRE role focused on platform reliability, observability, automation and operational excellence. You'll work alongside highly skilled engineers across Europe and the US, helping define reliability standards and enabling development teams to successfully adopt cloud-native technologies at enterprise scale.\nWhat you'll do\nShape and operate Swift's enterprise OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability, scalability and resilience for critical applications.\nLead the design and implementation of observability capabilities across metrics, logs and traces.\nEstablish and evolve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that drive measurable reliability improvements.\nDevelop and maintain scalable monitoring and logging solutions using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK).\nPartner with application teams to onboard workloads to the platform and promote Site Reliability Engineering best practices.\nDrive incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident learning to improve platform reliability over time.\nDesign, develop and enhance platform services and capabilities on OpenShift to improve customer experience, security, scalability and operational efficiency.\nOperate, maintain and continuously improve enterprise OpenShift clusters, including upgrades, lifecycle management, security compliance and platform resilience.\nCollaborate across two closely connected squads covering platform engineering and application onboarding, providing opportunities to contribute across multiple areas of the platform.\nEliminate operational toil through automation and self-service capabilities.\nAutomate operational processes through Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and engineering-first approaches.\nParticipate in on-call rotation, helping ensure the reliability of services supporting business-critical workloads.\nWhat you bring (Must-haves)\nProven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or Senior DevOps Engineer in complex production environments.\nStrong hands-on expertise with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.\nExperience designing and operating observability solutions, including logging, monitoring and alerting platforms.\nPractical experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets.\nStrong understanding of production operations, incident response and reliability engineering principles.\nA passion for automation, continuous improvement and solving complex technical challenges.\nNice to have\nExperience with ArgoCD and GitOps operating models.\nPython development or scripting skills.\nInfrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible or similar technologies.\nExposure to bare-metal Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.\nExperience working in large-scale enterprise environments\nHybrid & location\nLocation: Near Leiden, Netherlands.\nWorking model: Hybrid working in line with company policy, with regular collaboration across international engineering teams.\nWhat we offer\nWe give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals - like you - with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.\nWe are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact  or indicate this in your application.\nPlease note that this mailbox is not monitored for general recruitment enquiries and should only be used for accessibility or accommodation-related requests (for example related to vision, hearing or neurodiversity).\nAll requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.\nDon’t meet every single requirement? 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