Qualys - Senior Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps

About the job :

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and observability of our DevOps ecosystem.

This includes CI / CD systems, Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure automation, and telemetry platforms.

You will work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to build resilient systems and ensure continuous improvement of reliability standards.

Key Responsibilities :

• Own and manage DevOps components and tooling across 100+ production environments.
• Administer, scale, and optimize Kubernetes clusters used for application and infrastructure workloads.
• Implement and maintain observability stacks including Prometheus, OpenTelemetry (OTel), Elasticsearch, and ClickHouse for metrics, tracing, and log analytics.
• Ensure high availability of CI / CD pipelines and automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
• Build alerting, monitoring, and dashboarding systems to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Lead root cause analysis for incidents and drive long-term stability improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design systems that are reliable, secure, and observable by default.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts when necessary.
• Advice the cloud platform team to improve the reliability of the systems in production and scale them based on need.
• Participate in the development process by supporting new features, services, releases and hold an ownership mindset for the cloud platform technologies .
• Expertise in one of the programming language : Java, Python or Go.
• Proficient in writing bash scripts.
• Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL systems.
• Good understanding of systems programming (network stack, file system, OS services) .
• Should have good handson on Ansible .
• Should be able to automate Day to day activities .

Required Skills & Experience :

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