SRE Engineer - Cloud Operations

As a Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer on the Cloud Operations team, you will focus on keeping Qdrant Cloud reliable, observable, and secure as usage and infrastructure complexity grow. Your primary responsibility is operational excellence: stability, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems.

This role is operations-heavy, ideal for engineers who thrive in owning reliability and reducing operational risk at scale.

Tasks

• Operate and maintain production cloud infrastructure at scale

• Own Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and deployment pipelines

• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility

• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up actions

• Reduce operational toil through automation and better tooling

• Improve reliability, security, and performance of production systems

• Collaborate closely with Platform and Regions & Clusters teams

• Maintain and evolve runbooks, operational procedures, and alerts

• Participate in on-call rotations and continuous reliability improvements

Requirements

Must have

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations roles

• Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production

• Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure

• Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure

• Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and incident management

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling

• Comfortable owning on-call responsibilities and production incidents

• Strong operational mindset and clear communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools

• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry

• Exposure to security, compliance, or hardening initiatives

• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go

• Experience in SaaS, cloud, or data infrastructure environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits

• Fully remote setup with flexible working hours

• Clear ownership of reliability and operational excellence

• Opportunity to work on mission-critical customer-facing infrastructure

• Strong collaboration with platform and engineering teams