Senior DevOps Engineer
Qualys, Inc.3 days ago
Pune, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable observability platforms using ClickHouse, HyperDX, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Fluent Bit, and Filebeat.
- Architect and optimize ClickHouse schemas, partitioning, ordering keys, TTLs, materialized views, retention policies, storage efficiency, and query performance for high-volume telemetry workloads.
- Build and operate HyperDX for log search, distributed tracing, dashboards, service analysis, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Develop and maintain OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines for telemetry collection, processing, enrichment, filtering, sampling, batching, and routing.
- Deploy and operate highly available observability infrastructure on Kubernetes, including capacity planning, resiliency, and operational safety.
- Automate infrastructure deployment, configuration management, upgrades, application onboarding, and recurring operational work.
- Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD workflows and Terraform, Ansible, Consul, and Vault integrations.
- Partner with application, platform, SRE, and operations teams to improve observability coverage and reduce incident detection and resolution times.
- Analyze production issues across applications, infrastructure, telemetry pipelines, storage systems, and ClickHouse queries, and drive corrective actions to completion.
- Define standards for instrumentation, log quality, metric hygiene, trace propagation, dashboards, alert quality, and production readiness.
- Participate in incident response, post-incident reviews, capacity planning, operational reviews, and remediation tracking.
- Mentor junior engineers, review designs and automation changes, document operational procedures, and establish observability engineering standards.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Observability Engineering.
- Strong production experience with ClickHouse architecture, administration, schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, troubleshooting, retention management, and operations at scale.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating HyperDX with ClickHouse for log search, distributed tracing, dashboards, service analysis, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with OpenTelemetry and OpenTelemetry Collector configuration, including receivers, processors, exporters, sampling, enrichment, batching, and routing.
- Strong working knowledge of Fluent Bit, Filebeat, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, ClickHouse, HyperDX, OpenTelemetry, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Consul, Vault, and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of Linux, networking, microservices, distributed systems, high-availability architectures, and production operations.
- Experience troubleshooting high-volume production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, capacity, and performance.
- Ability to debug issues across application telemetry, Kubernetes infrastructure, data ingestion pipelines, storage systems, and query performance.
- Strong scripting and automation skills with an automation-first approach.
- Ability to own production systems, drive issues to closure, communicate clearly during incidents, and collaborate across engineering and operations teams.
- Preferred development experience with Java and Python.
- Experience developing automation, internal tools, APIs, platform services, or self-service onboarding workflows.
- Experience with Kafka or other high-throughput messaging and streaming platforms.
- Understanding of APM, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, context propagation, service maps, service dependency analysis, SLOs, and SLIs.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
- Experience designing observability solutions for large-scale Kubernetes, microservices, or distributed application environments.
- Experience improving alert quality, reducing operational noise, and supporting production readiness reviews.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureClickHouseGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About Qualys, Inc.
Qualys builds a cloud-based security and compliance platform used by enterprises to automate vulnerability management, IT asset visibility, web application scanning, and policy/PCI compliance across on‑prem and cloud environments. Delivered as subscription SaaS, its Enterprise TruRisk Platform uses a single agent to provide continuous security telemetry for endpoints, servers, containers, and clouds. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Qualys is a public company trading on NASDAQ (QLYS).