What You’ll Do As an SRE Specialist with a focus on development, you will act as a strategic partner and quality gatekeeper for our software development teams. Your responsibilities include:
* Reliability Governance: Define, track, and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets across development teams.
* Architectural Review: Partner with software architects during the design phase to ensure new features comply with reliability, scalability, and security standards.
* Development Quality Gates: Define and enforce quality gates within the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring no software is deployed to production without meeting reliability criteria.
* Incident & Problem Management: Oversee the post‑mortem process, ensuring development teams prioritize bug fixes and architectural changes identified during incidents.
* Chaos Engineering & Testing: Design chaos engineering scenarios and game days to validate system resilience, guiding developers on how to improve their code.
* Toil Reduction Strategy: Analyze development workflows to identify systemic inefficiencies and guide teams on how to automate operations. Requirements
* 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering, SRE, or Technical Product Management with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle.
* Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and cloud‑native patterns (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
* Strong expertise in establishing SLOs/SLIs, error budget policies, and continuous improvement frameworks.




* Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and tracing concepts (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
* Exceptional communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence engineering practices and mentor developers without direct authority.
* Nice to have: experience implementing ITIL, Agile, or DevOps practices at scale; certification in Cloud Architecture or Agile Project Management; prior experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager. Compensation & Benefits Contract type & work conditions Permanent employment contract, full time (37 hours per week), located in Milan (hybrid). Salary Annual base salary starting from 48,000€; variable remuneration in line with applicable remuneration policies, with targets based on role, outcomes, and performance. Benefits
* Flexible Lavoro da remoto
* Competitive base salaries and performance‑based bonuses
* Meal vouchers and corporate restaurant access
* Health insurance and accident insurance
* Pension fund and welfare plan
* Diverse cultures and innovative mindsets
* International environment and talent program
* Commitment to sustainability and training opportunities
* Health and well‑being support and special day off for birthday
* Free water and coffee at the office EEO Statement We are fully committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment, based on mutual respect and the value of diversity, offering equal job opportunities to all qualified candidates. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Sre Expert (Pavia)
🏢 ING Bank N.V. Milan Branch
📍 Pavia