IT- Site Reliability Engineer

Syensqo is all about chemistry. We’re not just referring to chemical reactions here, but also to the magic that occurs when the brightest minds get to work together. This is where our true strength lies. In you. In your future colleagues and in all your differences. And of course, in your ideas to improve lives while preserving our planet’s beauty for the generations to come.

IT - Site Reliability Engineer

Join us at Syensqo, where our IT team is gearing up to enhance its capabilities. We play a crucial role in the group's transformation—accelerating growth, reshaping progress, and creating sustainable shared value. IT team is making operational adjustments to supercharge value across the entire organization.

Here at Syensqo, we're one strong team! Our commitment to accountability drives us as we work hard to deliver value for our customers and stakeholders. In our dynamic and collaborative work environment, we add a touch of enjoyment while staying true to our motto: reinvent progress.

Come be part of our transformation journey and contribute to the change as a future team member.

We are looking for: 

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) working in a 24/7 shift rotation, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems and services. You will combine strong technical skills with operational excellence to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues. Your expertise in observability will help maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes, ensuring seamless operations around the clock. 

• 24/7 Operations & Incident Management

  • Monitor production systems and services using observability tools (logs, metrics, traces, dashboards).

  • Respond to incidents, alerts, and outages in real time, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal impact.

  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, providing support during nights, weekends, and holidays.

• Observability & Monitoring

  • Design, implement, and maintain observability solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and similar tools).

  • Develop and refine dashboards, alerts, and automated health checks for critical infrastructure and applications.

  • Analyze system performance and reliability data to identify trends and prevent future incidents, looking from an end-to-end full stack from infrastructure to application layers

• Technical Operations

  • Collaborate with development, infrastructure, application and security teams to ensure system reliability and scalability.

  • Automate operational tasks and incident response processes using scripting and configuration management tools.

  • Document procedures, runbooks, and incident reports for knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

• Continuous Improvement

  • Conduct post-incident reviews and root cause analysis to drive improvements in reliability and response.

  • Propose and implement enhancements to monitoring, alerting, and operational processes.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field. Master's degree or relevant certifications would be a plus.

• Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in cloud engineering and operations engineering

• Proven experience with Azure services, with AWS and GCP an advantage

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.

• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell for automation tasks

• Familiarity with Gitlab CI/CD tools  and experience integrating them with Azure

• Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools such as native cloud tools, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry

Skills and behavioral competencies

• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting abilities

• Result orientation, influence & impact

• Empowerment & accountability with the ability to work independently

• Team spirit, building relationships, collective accountability        

• Excellent oral and written communication skills for documenting and sharing information with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Language skills

Fluent English 

What’s in it for the candidate

• Be part of a highly motivated team of explorers 

• Help make a difference and thrive in Cloud and AI technology 

• Chart your own course and build a fantastic career 

• Have fun and enjoy life with an industry leading remuneration pack 

About us

• Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.
• At Syensqo, we seek to promote unity and not uniformity. We value the diversity that individuals bring and we invite you to consider a future with us, regardless of background, age, gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability or identity. We encourage individuals who may require any assistance or accommodations to let us know to ensure a seamless application experience. We are here to support you throughout the application journey and want to ensure all candidates are treated equally. If you are unsure whether you meet all the criteria or qualifications listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.