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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.\nThe 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!\nAt SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. 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Join SolarWinds and grow with us!\nWhat you will do\nSolarWinds 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.\nThe 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.\nOperate, maintain, upgrade and improve production Kubernetes clusters and workloads across AWS and Azure environments.\nManage Kubernetes platform components and technologies such as Helm, Kustomize, operators, istio, autoscaling, and cluster/node lifecycle management.\nSupport and maintain production database platforms such as ClickHouse, Aurora and other distributed data systems, including performance troubleshooting and operational health.\nBuild and maintain infrastructure using Terraform.\nDevelop automation and tooling to reduce operational toil and improve reliability using Python, Go, Bash, or similar technologies.\nParticipate in an on-call rotation, respond to production incidents, and lead or contribute to incident resolution and root-cause analysis.\nImprove observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response across infrastructure and services.\nPartner closely with software engineering and platform teams to design and deploy reliable, scalable services.\nContribute to capacity planning, performance optimization, patching, upgrades, and infrastructure lifecycle management.\nDevelop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.\nParticipate in reliability initiatives, including automation, resilience engineering, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement.\nRequired Qualifications\n2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related field.\nStrong hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including operating, upgrading and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and workloads.\nStrong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, including:\nPods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs\nServices, Ingress, DNS, and Kubernetes networking\nConfigMaps, Secrets, and persistent storage\nResource requests/limits and scheduling\nAutoscaling across workloads, clusters, and nodes\nPod Disruption Budgets and high availability patterns\nKubernetes upgrades and cluster lifecycle management\nExperience troubleshooting Kubernetes at both the application workload and cluster infrastructure levels.\nStrong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure.\nStrong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.\nExperience operating customer facing, highly available production systems.\nExperience participating in a production on-call rotation and responding to high-severity incidents.\nStrong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.\nExperience with scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.\nStrong understanding of infrastructure concepts including compute, networking, storage, DNS, load balancing, and security.\nStrong troubleshooting skills with the ability to methodically diagnose complex distributed-system failures.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and cross-functional teams.\nWhat we are looking for\nOwnership mindset and strong operational discipline\nAbility to stay calm and effective during incidents\nWillingness to learn, improve systems, and drive reliability-focused changes\nPractical approach to solving infrastructure and operational problems\nTeam player who values clear communication and documentation\nContinuous learner, stays current with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and modern SRE practices.\nOn-Call Expectations\nThis position requires participation in a scheduled on-call rotation to support production systems and help ensure service reliability and availability.\nSolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 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