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.
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 benef

📌 Remote Site Reliability Engineer(DevOps) (Cataluña)
🏢 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
📍 Cataluña