Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Pubblicato il 10-09-2026 - Igenius in Balgano
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team in Milan and help shape the future of our flagship project, Colosseum, one of Europe’s most powerful AI supercomputers, currently in development.
Designed to run our proprietary AI models at scale, it forms the compute backbone behind the intelligence we deliver to the world’s most demanding industries.
In this role, you will design and implement observability and control mechanisms that extract operational data from infrastructure and feed it into automated systems to enable continuous optimization, including key system budgets such as power, cooling and service level, security-level objectives.
You will be responsible for actively guarding and maintaining these operational budgets as part of day-to-day system reliability and performance management.
You will also contribute to operational excellence through blameless post-mortem analysis and structured incident learning, ensuring continuous improvement of system behavior and resilience.
As a part of the team,
you will work closely with Platform Engineering in a shared cybersecurity model, where SRE focuses on detection and monitoring, while Platform Engineering ensures the secure design and operation of the underlying infrastructure.
What You Have
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in similar roles.
- Strong experience with observability and monitoring systems such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Experience with low-level system instrumentation and performance visibility using technologies such as eBPF
- Experience with security monitoring and threat detection tools such as Zeek, Wazuh, or equivalent SIEM / security observability platforms
- Strong experience with containerized and cloud-native environments, particularly Kubernetes
- Strong software development sk