Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Xtium; Islamabad; Remote; PKR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

XTIUM is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own and optimize our Linux-based infrastructure, security, and CI/CD pipelines. You will implement IaC, manage containerized workloads, and ensure high availability across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role emphasizes automation, incident response, security hardening, and scalable architectures. Remote work is available from Islamabad with a focus on global execution and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles.
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Familiarity with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and CNI plugins (Calico/Cilium).
• Understanding of zero-trust networking and SSO integrations.
• Certifications like RHCE, CKA, CISSP are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage Linux-based systems in production and staging.
• Perform OS patching, hardening, and security updates.
• Troubleshoot complex OS issues and Windows Server where applicable.
• Configure and maintain LDAP authentication and WAF configurations.
• Deploy and scale Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS/on-prem).
• Monitor via Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK; drive blameless post-mortems.

Skills

SRE background

DevOps

Strong communications

Education

RHCE

CKA

CISSP

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Istio/Linkerd

Job description

XTIUM is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own and optimize our Linux-based infrastructure, security, and CI/CD pipelines. You will implement IaC, manage containerized workloads, and ensure high availability across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role emphasizes automation, incident response, security hardening, and scalable architectures. Remote work is available from Islamabad with a focus on global execution and continuous improvement.