Site Reliability Engineer
Qualys, Inc.24 hours ago
Raleigh, NC, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
Responsibilities
- Monitor production applications, infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and distributed systems to maintain service health and reliability.
- Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, escalation, root-cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and on-call rotations.
- Support Apache Spark workloads, Kafka pipelines, cloud data platforms, and distributed production systems.
- Create and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and observability configurations using metrics, logs, and system behavior analysis.
- Develop scripts, tooling, and automation for monitoring, troubleshooting, deployments, log analysis, and operational workflows.
- Support cloud environments, Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure configuration, automated deployments, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, and Data Platform teams to improve reliability and operational efficiency.
- Document architectures, runbooks, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting steps, and reliability best practices.
Requirements
- 0–3 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical role.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Basic understanding of Linux/Unix systems, processes, memory, networking, system troubleshooting, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience with or familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized applications.
- Familiarity with Apache Spark, Kafka, or similar distributed data-processing platforms.
- Strong programming and scripting fundamentals in Python, Bash, Go, Java, Scala, or similar languages, including the ability to automate operational tasks.
- Basic SQL knowledge and strong problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, and other monitoring and observability tools.
- Basic understanding of AWS, OCI, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Understanding of networking, security, distributed systems, automation, and SRE practices.
- Preferred familiarity with Delta Lake, S3, Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, ELK, Splunk, or AppDynamics.
- Preferred exposure to CI/CD, automated deployment processes, large-scale systems, incident management, on-call processes, postmortems, and cloud certifications.
- Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and troubleshooting skills.
Benefits
- Full-time role with hybrid or remote flexibility depending on company policy.
- On-call participation may be required.
- Opportunity to work with cloud-native, distributed, and large-scale production systems.
- Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, and Data Platform teams.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaApache SparkAWSBashGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonScalaSplunkSQLTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
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).