Data Services SRE Engineer: Platform Reliability & Automation

Fortinet Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Vacation time

Disability insurance

Equity program

Job summary

Fortinet Inc. is seeking a production systems engineer to deploy, configure, and maintain platform components and perform capacity planning. The role focuses on fault-tolerant operations and rapid incident resolution.

You will develop automation and monitoring, improve runbooks, and validate changes. Collaboration with development, security, and infrastructure teams is essential for reliable releases, backups, and disaster recovery exercises.

Qualifications

• Experience developing or operating production systems; 3+ years preferred.
• Strong Linux fundamentals including networking, permissions, processes, storage, service operation.
• Practical programming or automation with at least one language (Python, Bash, Go, or Java).

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, upgrade, and maintain platform components, including capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, identify root causes, and improve reliability and performance.
• Develop automation tools and improve monitoring, runbooks, change validation, and recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams on releases, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery exercises.

Skills

Python

Bash

Go

Java

Linux fundamentals

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Networking

Tools

KVM

Ceph

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Docker

Kubernetes (Rancher)

Job description

Fortinet Inc. is seeking a production systems engineer to deploy, configure, and maintain platform components and perform capacity planning. The role focuses on fault-tolerant operations and rapid incident resolution.

You will develop automation and monitoring, improve runbooks, and validate changes. Collaboration with development, security, and infrastructure teams is essential for reliable releases, backups, and disaster recovery exercises.