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!
We work in a hybrid mode 3+2 , with a minimum of 3 days at the office (with mandatory Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and a maximum of 2 days at the home office.
The location of our office is Holandská 873/6, Brno – Štýřice, 639 00 .
We employ only via an employment contract – full-time employment (HPP).
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who takes extreme ownership of production systems and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You bring deep hands-on experience across infrastructure, data platforms, and delivery pipelines — and you hold yourself accountable for reliability outcomes.
Responsibilities
Own reliability and uptime of production infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters and data platforms
Lead Kubernetes version upgrades with zero-downtime strategies across large-scale environments
Deep understanding of data pipelines and ensuring reliability, observability, and scalability end-to-end
Manage and scale ELK stack for centralized logging and observability across services
Operate and optimize ClickHouse clusters for high-throughput analytical workloads
Administer Kafka clusters — tuning, scaling, and ensuring fault-tolerant message delivery
Participate in and continuously improve on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response processes
Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational toil
Collaborate closely 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
Preferred 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
Our benefits:
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
SolarWinds Appreciation Program
Giving – Donation Matching
Employee Assistance
Competitive Race Reimbursement
Breakfast on Wednesdays
Fresh fruits and snacks on Mondays
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.
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