DevOps Engineer (Senior)

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). Overview As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our production systems. You will design and operate cloud-based infrastructure, implement automation and observability at scale, and drive incident response practices that keep our mission-critical systems running smoothly. This role focuses on production system reliability, blending systems engineering expertise with modern DevOps/SRE practices. Key Responsibilities 1. Cloud Infrastructure Reliability Design, implement, and manage highly available, fault-tolerant cloud architectures on Azure, AWS, or other cloud platforms. Apply site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to production systems, ensuring scalability, cost efficiency, and performance. Manage hybrid and multi-cloud production workloads with a focus on uptime, security, and resilience. 2. Automation Infrastructure as Code Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate environment provisioning and configuration. Continuously improve production system workflows through automation, reducing manual interventions and operational risk. 3. Observability Incident Response Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems. Lead incident response for production systems, including root cause analysis, documentation, and implementing preventative measures. Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide operational priorities. 4. System Design Integration Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and integrate cloud-native solutions into the production environment. Evaluate existing production systems and drive improvements for performance, security, and reliability. Ensure system architectures adhere to best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, and compliance. 5. Optimization Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to optimize production infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost savings. Leverage modern DevOps toolchains and frameworks to streamline production workflows. Champion continuous improvement in operational excellence and system resiliency. 6. Collaboration Leadership Work closely with engineers, security, and operations teams to ensure system stability and business continuity. Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Mentor junior engineers, sharing expertise in cloud operations, automation, and incident management. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience. Proven experience as a Systems Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer supporting production systems. Hands-on expertise with Azure (multi-cloud experience a plu ... (truncated, view full listing at source)