Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

31 CONCEPT; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

31 CONCEPT is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate scalable carrier-grade platforms. You will work across telecom and enterprise environments, focusing on reliability, automation, and performance, with emphasis on Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.

You will own observability, incident response, IaC, and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with engineering, product, and operations teams to define SLIs and SLOs and to drive architecture decisions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps, infrastructure engineering or platform engineering.
• Strong Linux administration and production systems experience.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native stacks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain highly available production environments.
• Develop observability, monitoring, alerting and incident response processes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows.
• Manage Kubernetes-based platforms in production.
• Improve reliability, scalability, performance and security.
• Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Optimize Linux-based systems for high-performance workloads.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, networking, applications and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and operations teams.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs and reliability metrics.

Skills

Linux administration

Kubernetes

Networking knowledge

CI/CD automation

Distributed systems

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Docker

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help us build and operate highly scalable carrier-grade platforms deployed in demanding telecom and enterprise environments This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges automating operations improving reliability and working at the intersection of networking Linux cloud-native technologies and large-scale distributed systems Candidates with experience from companies such as Huawei Sandvine Allot Nokia Ericsson Cisco Juniper Procera A10 Networks or telecom operators are highly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Design build and maintain highly available production environments
• Develop and improve observability monitoring alerting and incident response processes
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows
• Manage Kubernetes-based platforms in production
• Improve system reliability scalability performance and security
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible
• Optimize Linux-based systems for high-performance workloads
• Support CI CD pipelines and release automation
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure networking applications and distributed systems
• Collaborate with engineering product and operations teams
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making
• Define and track SLIs SLOs and reliability metrics

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong Linux administration background.
• Production experience with Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with containerized environments and microservices.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar observability platforms.
• Strong networking knowledge: TCP/IP, Routing and Switching, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, VPN technologies
• Experience operating large-scale production systems.

Nice to Have

• Experience in telecom environments.
• Experience with DPI platforms.
• Experience with Sandvine, Allot, Procera, Cisco SCE, Huawei SmartCare, or similar solutions.
• Knowledge of DPDK, high-performance packet processing, or network observability platforms.
• Experience with OpenStack.
• Knowledge of service provider networks.
• Experience with distributed databases and message brokers.
• Understanding of security and information security practices.