Senior Site Reliability Engineer
HybridBrno, South Moravian, Czechia
Job Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at SolarWinds responsible for ownership of production infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and data platforms. Leads zero-downtime Kubernetes version upgrades across large-scale environments, ensures reliability, observability, and scalability of data pipelines end-to-end, and manages/scales the ELK stack for centralized logging. Operates and optimizes ClickHouse clusters for high-throughput analytic workloads and administers Kafka clusters with tuning, scaling, and fault-tolerant delivery. Participates in and improves on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response, drives automation across infrastructure provisioning and deployments, and collaborates with engineering, data, and product teams to embed reliability from day one.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes including version upgrade planning, node pool migrations, and zero-downtime rollouts
- Strong experience with Kafka — operations, tuning, and scaling in production
- Proficiency with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for log management and observability
- Experience operating ClickHouse or similar columnar databases at scale
- Solid background in building and maintaining data pipelines reliably in production
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform — modules, state management, and multi-environment setups
- CI/CD expertise using Flux, Jenkins, or Spinnaker
- Strong Git practices — branching strategies, GitOps workflows
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go, Bash)
- Proven on-call experience with a track record of improving alert quality and reducing MTTR
- Strong automation mindset — eliminate toil, build durable solutions
Desired Qualifications
- Extreme ownership — you don't wait to be asked, you drive problems to resolution
- Collaborative team player who lifts those around them
- Clear communicator across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- 25 days of vacation per year
- 3 sick days per year
- 10 study days per year
- 2 volunteering days per year
- 4 weeks’ holidays after 5-year tenure, Sabbatical Leave
- Up to 48 300CZK personal education budget per year
- Pension or life insurance matching donation up to 3% of the salary or 4000 CZK per month
- Cash allowance for meals of 95 CZK per working day
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- English/Czech classes
- Multisport card
- Solarian Referral Program
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