Senior DevOps Engineer Req ID: 200897

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!

Your Role:

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering) with experience in AWS, Database, Kubernetes and GitOps to work with our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. The successful candidate will understand SRE practices and have exposure to 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

Your Impact:

• Learn, develop and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of cloud (AWS) infrastructure and systems
• Be part of a weekly 24/7 on-call rotation
• Provide support during US business hours, working in the US Pacific time zone
• Contribute to on-call, documentation and incident response playbooks
• Embrace and adhere to development best practices, including continuous integration/deployment and code review
• Maintain SOC2 compliance

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 works well under pressure
• Must be a collaborative problem solver
• Strong bias for ownership and action

Your Experience:

• At least 6+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining SAAS environments
• 5+ years Linux administration experience
• 3+ years MySQL administration experience
• 3+ years AWS administration experience with Terraform (EKS, IAM, Autoscaling, WAF, ELB, VPC, Route53, Cloudwatch, SQS)
• 3+ years Kubernetes administration experience with Istio, Kustomize and Helm
• Familiarity with GitOps, Observability, Disaster Recovery, Load Balancing and Security Technologies
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly and effectively
• Experience supporting a production environment
• Scripting and Automation experience (Ansible, Python, Bash and Terraform)
• CKA or AWS Certifications is a plus

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.