Senior DevOps Engineer

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 plus).
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar) for infrastructure and operations.
• Solid knowledge of observability tooling.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills in complex production environments.
• Knowledge of networking, security, and system performance optimization in cloud environments.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to lead in high-pressure incident scenarios and drive long-term operational improvements.

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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