Want your engineering skills to enable real scientific breakthroughs? We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our highly skilled IT Operations team at EMBL-EBI. As part of our small but highly skilled IT Operations team, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the availability, reliability and efficiency of services that support researchers across the globe.
In this hands‑on role, you’ll ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of the services that thousands of scientists rely on worldwide. Identity & Access Management – Maintain, improve and standardise our authentication and authorisation infrastructure (Active Directory, Entra-ID, Red Hat IDP).
Transfer services – Support the systems we use for data transfer (Globus, Aspera, FTP,
File Replication (FIRE) Archive - Develop and maintain our software‑defined object storage.
Monitoring & Reliability - Maintain and evolve distributed Check_mk monitoring while contributing to the development of a long‑term monitoring strategy.
Automation & Orchestration - Work with Gerrit, Foreman, RPM repositories, and Puppet to deploy, update and manage 3,000+ servers.
Knowledge Sharing - Produce documentation and Standard Operating Procedures that empower our Service Desk and improve user experience.
5+ years of experience with Linux production systems
~ Ability to review and guide code in Python, Bash and Puppet.

Don’t be dissuaded from applying if you do not have all the right technologies in your portfolio - training will be provided to a candidate with the right experience and attitude.
Other helpful information Hybrid Working - At EMBL-EBI, we are pleased to offer hybrid working options for all our employees,



with an expectation that you will be on site at least two days a week, one of which will be a "team day".
Interviews - We plan to hold all interviews with selected candidates remotely via Zoom.
Contract length - 3 years (renewable up to 9 years).
Salary - Grade 6 - monthly salary from £3,861.91 after tax plus benefits and financial allowances based on family circumstances. We provide the global research community with access to publicly available databases and tools which are crucial for the advancement of healthcare, food security, and biodiversity.
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Versátil working arrangements - including hybrid working patterns.
Private medical insurance for you and your immediate family (including all prescriptions and generous dental & optical cover).
Generous time off: 30 days annual leave per year, in addition public holidays.
Relocation package including installation grant (if required).
Free shuttle bus to and from work, on‑site library, subsidised on‑site gym and cafeteria, casual dress code, extensive sports and social club activities (on campus and remotely).
Family benefits - On‑site nursery, 10 days of child sick leave, generous parental leave, holiday clubs on campus and monthly family and child allowances.
Benefits for non-UK residents - Visa exemption, education grant for private schooling, financial support to travel back to your home country every second year and a monthly non-resident allowance.
International applicants - We recruit internationally and successful candidates are offered visa exemptions. Find out how we apply DORA principles to our recruitment and performance assessment processes here.

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer Remote, Contract (Barcelona)
🏢 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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