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SolarWinds is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 2+ years of experience to help build, operate, and improve the systems that support our products and internal platforms. This role is ideal for someone who is hands-on, dependable, and comfortable working across Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Linux, and Database environments in a production setting.
The right candidate has a foundation in site reliability engineering, enjoys solving problems in live environments, and understands the importance of reliability, automation, and operational discipline.
Operate, maintain, upgrade and improve production Kubernetes clusters and workloads across AWS and Azure environments.
Manage Kubernetes platform components and technologies such as Helm, Kustomize, operators, istio, autoscaling, and cluster/node lifecycle management.
Support and maintain production database platforms such as ClickHouse, Aurora and other distributed data systems, including performance troubleshooting and operational health.
Develop automation and tooling to reduce operational toil and improve reliability using Python, Go, Bash, or similar technologies.
Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to production incidents, and lead or contribute to incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
Improve observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response across infrastructure and services.
Partner closely with software engineering and platform teams to design and deploy reliable, scalable services.




Contribute to capacity planning, performance optimization, patching, upgrades, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
Participate in reliability initiatives, including automation, resilience engineering, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement.
2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related field.

- Strong hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including operating, upgrading and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, including:
- Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs
- Services, Ingress, DNS, and Kubernetes networking
- Kubernetes upgrades and cluster lifecycle management
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes at both the application workload and cluster infrastructure levels.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience operating customer facing, highly available production systems.
- Experience participating in a production on-call rotation and responding to high-severity incidents.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure concepts including compute, networking, storage, DNS, load balancing, and security.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and cross-functional teams.

Continuous learner, stays current with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and modern SRE practices.
On-Call Expectations
This position requires participation in a scheduled on-call rotation to support production systems and help ensure service reliability and availability.

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.

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