Platform Reliability Engineer

Platform Reliability Engineer

Sonepar seeks an experienced Platform Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, availability, and performance of its digital platform. The role operates under the Platform SRE Lead and applies Site Reliability Engineering principles across day‑to‑day operations, incident management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, operate, and maintain platform health, availability, and performance.
• Apply SRE principles to improve system reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Define, track, and report Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets.
• Continuously improve operational processes to enhance platform stability and customer experience.
• Participate in incident resolution and cross‑functional incident response.
• Perform root cause analysis and contribute to preventive and corrective actions.
• Use monitoring, observability tools, and data analysis to detect and mitigate issues before they impact service availability.
• Contribute to post‑incident reviews and operational documentation.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts to support deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes.
• Reduce manual operational work through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate repetitive tasks and workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for real‑time system visibility.
• Contribute to distributed tracing and telemetry to support root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
• Ensure observability data supports SLO tracking and operational decision‑making.
• Participate in resilience testing and chaos engineering experiments to validate system robustness.
• Improve failover mechanisms and disaster recovery procedures.
• Identify single points of failure and propose reliability improvements.
• Assist in optimizing platform performance, resource utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability and operability into application design.
• Support scalability testing and performance validation activities.
• Work closely with the Platform SRE Lead, platform engineers, and development teams.
• Communicate operational status, incidents, and improvements clearly within the team.
• Contribute to change management, release planning, and operational readiness activities.
• Share knowledge through documentation, runbooks, and best practices.

Success Metrics

• Platform services meet defined reliability and availability targets.
• Incidents are detected early, resolved efficiently, and followed by meaningful improvements.
• Automation reduces operational toil and improves response times.
• Observability provides clear insights into platform health and risks.
• Development teams trust the platform’s reliability and operational maturity.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and effective collaboration in a technical environment.
• Autonomous and active contributor to a cross‑functional team.
• Fluent in English and French (written and spoken).
• 7–10 years of professional experience in SRE, operations, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.

Soft Skills

• Proactive, curious, and solution‑driven mindset.
• Strong focus on reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced and evolving digital environment.
• Constructively challenge existing practices and propose better ways of working.

Benefits

• Hybrid work mode: 3 days in Paris (8ème) after trial period.
• 75% reimbursement of monthly or annual transport pass.
• Swile ticket restaurant card.
• Gym exclusively reserved for the company and free of charge.
• Sustainable mobility package.
• Health insurance & welfare.
• Employee savings plan & profit‑sharing bonus.

Work Mode & Location

Hybrid: 3 days in Paris (8ème) after the trial period. Full‑time.',