SRE Software Engineer II - API Management

API Management; we are responsible for managing the front door (API management system) for TomTom’s online products and hence are key to customer experience. We drive improving the quality of the service and aim to enable self-service for our users by system engineering and software development

What you’ll do

• You will scale systems and increase their reliability in a diverse environment
• You will support navigation tooling in the world.
• You will work on the architecture, design, and implementation of new and existing systems to enhance their reliability, efficiency and scalability
• You will ensure the mission critical systems have 99.9+% availability and reliability
• You will be part of Incident Management and will improve the TTR.

What you’ll need

• Experience in cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes on public cloud platforms (AKS and/or EKS) and related technologies and tooling for cloud runtime platforms and end-to-end delivery (packaging, service mesh, ingress, identity, and access management).
• Familiar with at least one public cloud platform, preferably Azure or AWS
• Proficiency in one programming language and having strong architecture skills.
• CI/CD technologies, including source code management (GitHub), pipelines, secrets, artefacts.
• GitOps practices and infrastructure automation, including infrastructure as code
• Experience with SRE best practices, observability, incident management and SLIs.
• Cloud-native architecture, technology, engineering, and operations (CNCF)
• Security, privacy, and compliance essentials
• Good understanding on Unix/Linux systems and internal

General skills and experience

• Experience on working in production-grade platform related teams (Cloud, Infrastructure, SRE)
• Extensive experience in high-availability solutions (99.9+ availability and reliability)
• Experience on building and operating mission critical systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• MSc in computer engineering or equivalent desirable

Nice to have

• Modern coding languages (experienced in infrastructure-related languages such as Golang and Python; familiarity with product engineering languages such as Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin)
• Serverless technologies
• Software-defined operating models and technologies, including IaaS, CaaS, and PaaS
• Software architecture fundamentals