Senior SRE - Cloud & Incident Leadership

Nextens; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401(k) with match

Wellbeing programs (Headspace, EAP)

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Critical Illness coverage

Hospital Indemnity

Family benefits and leaves

Health Savings and Dependent Care

Commuter Spending Accounts

Paid volunteer leave

Job summary

Nextens is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems. You will contribute to incident response, postmortems, and remediation planning while partnering with engineering, security, and operations teams to drive improvements.

The role requires strong automation skills, experience with Kubernetes and cloud/on‑prem infrastructure, and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable services in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps/related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or IT.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems.
• Experience leading incident reviews, postmortems, and remediation planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response, postmortems, root-cause analysis, and gap assessments.
• Identify reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational risks across production environments.
• Develop, prioritize, and track corrective and preventive actions through completion.
• Coordinate with engineering, development, security, support, and business stakeholders to resolve incidents and gaps.
• Respond to system-management alerts and operational exceptions within assigned enterprise systems and product offerings.
• Provide technical input into project plans, schedules, and readiness activities.
• Support triage, planning, execution, and closure of changes, service requests, and tasks.

Skills

SRE experience

Incident response leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Cloud and on-prem infra

Scripting (Python/Shell/PowerShell)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux/Unix

Scripting (Python/Shell/PowerShell)

Monitoring/Observability tools

Job description

Nextens is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems. You will contribute to incident response, postmortems, and remediation planning while partnering with engineering, security, and operations teams to drive improvements.

The role requires strong automation skills, experience with Kubernetes and cloud/on‑prem infrastructure, and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable services in a fast-paced