Platform SRE – Staff Site Reliability Engineer
at SolarWinds (View all jobs)
Brno, Czech Republic
Req ID: 201930
At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.
The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!
We work in a hybrid mode 3+2, with a minimum of 3 days at the office (with mandatory Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and a maximum of 2 days at the home office.
The location of our office is Holandská 873/6, Brno – Štýřice, 639 00.
We employ only via an employment contract – FTE (HPP).
Your Role:
We are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering) with extensive experience in AWS, AZURE, Kubernetes, and GitOps to lead our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. The successful candidate will deeply understand SRE practices and have a track record of implementing high-quality site reliability engineering practices (SLAs, SLOs, Proactive Alert Management, Incident Response/Review, Postmortems, etc.).
In this role, you will work with our SRE and cross-functional engineering teams to develop and operate our development and production infrastructure and operations
Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with software engineering on infrastructure and deployment requirements;
- Contribute actively and assist in our automation and observability initiatives
- Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of cloud (AWS & AZURE) infrastructure and systems
- Collaborate with senior team members in responding to production incidents, actively contribute to postmortems, and engage in continuous improvement efforts as part of on-call rotations for exposure to critical issue resolution
- Establish and drive operations performance through SLOs
- Provide project management, sprint planning, and road-mapping support to the SRE team
- Expert-level technical skills and able to provide mentoring to team members
- Our team uses practices to maximize our development velocity, including but not limited to: continuous integration/deployment, code review via GitHub pull requests
Ideal Attributes
- Strong customer orientation
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
- Attention to detail and focus on quality
- Strong communication skills to effectively liaise with both technical and non-technical staff
- Ability to act decisively and work well under pressure
- Must be a collaborative problem solver
- Strong bias for ownership and action
Qualifications:
- At least 10 + years of experience designing, building, and maintaining SAAS environments
- 6+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining AWS/AZURE infrastructure with Terraform
- 3+ years of experience building and running Kubernetes, Clickhouse, MySQL, and Kafka clusters
- Experience with observability (monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics)
- Experience with GitOps CI/CD processes
- Experience with scripting with Python, Go (Golang), bash, or PowerShell, and AWS CLI tools
Our benefits:
- 25 days of vacation per year
- 3 sick days per year
- 10 study days per year
- 2 volunteering days per year
- 4 weeks’ holidays after 5-year tenure, Sabbatical Leave
- Up to 48 300CZK personal education budget per year
- Pension or life insurance matching donation up to 3% of the salary or 4000 CZK per month
- Cash allowance for meals of 95 CZK per working day
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- English/Czech classes
- Multisport card
- Solarian Referral Program
- SolarWinds Appreciation Program
- Giving – Donation Matching
- Employee Assistance
- Competitive Race Reimbursement
- Breakfast on Wednesdays
- Fresh fruits and snacks on Mondays
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice