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.
At EMBL-EBI, our IT & Technical Services department underpins groundbreaking research that improves human and planetary health.
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. You’ll tackle complex infrastructure challenges, improve automation and resilience, and help shape the future of our platform.
If you want variety, genuine ownership, and the opportunity to support research that improves human and planetary health, this is a role where your work truly matters.
In this role, you will support the team in the delivery of some or all of the following services:
Identity & Access Management – Maintain,



improve and standardise our authentication and authorisation infrastructure (Active Directory, Entra-ID, Red Hat IDP).
Email Systems – Support and develop our mail services (Postfix, Cyrus, Roundcube, Mailman), including a planned migration to O365.
Transfer services – Support the systems we use for data transfer (Globus, Aspera, FTP, HTTP).
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.
Core Infrastructure - Maintain and improve Puppet modules (NTP, SSSD) and support new RedHat OS templates.
Knowledge Sharing - Produce documentation and Standard Operating Procedures that e

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
📍 Madrid