Site Reliability Engineer

Relha LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Austin, TX, working a hybrid schedule (3 days on site). You will own service availability for a high-availability cloud-based telecom solution, with a product-specific SRE team responsible for automation, observability, and incident response.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Java, cloud, microservices, and CI/CD experience, plus familiarity with Datadog for monitoring and postmortem-driven improvements.

Qualifications

• Proficient in designing scalable infra with IaC
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
• Strong knowledge of microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with NoSQL databases and data modeling
• Ability to participate in on-call rotations and incident response

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes
• Develop automated CI/CD pipelines via GitLab to reduce toil
• Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs and manage error budgets
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations and triage production issues
• Perform capacity planning and performance analysis to handle growth

Skills

Java development

Public Cloud

Microservices

NoSQL database

On-call experience

Education

Engineer or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

Datadog

Jenkins

Helm

Job description

Location: Austin, United States of America

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Austin, TX - Hybrid (3 days a week)

Position Summary

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the high level of service and operation excellence for the development of the innovative and ambitious Telecommunication solution (high availability, strong performance constraints) deployed in the public cloud. This product requires the establishment of a product specific SRE team.

Essential Functions

Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes. Develop automated CI/CD pipelines via GitLab to reduce manual toil.

Availability & Reliability Engineering: Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs). Manage "Error Budgets" to balance the velocity of new features with the stability of the platform.

Incident Management & On-Call Support: Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations to provide emergency response and perform deep-dive troubleshooting for production issues.

Performance & Capacity Planning: Conduct system performance analysis, identify bottlenecks, and perform capacity planning to ensure the infrastructure can handle growth and peak loads.

Observability & Monitoring: Implement and refine symptom-based alerting and comprehensive monitoring strategies using platforms like Datadog to ensure high visibility into system health.

Continuous Improvement & Postmortems: Lead blameless postmortems after incidents to identify root causes and implement long-term technical fixes to prevent recurrence.

Security & Compliance Collaboration: Partner with Cloud Security teams to implement security best practices, manage access controls, and respond to security breaches or vulnerabilities.

Support customer relationship

Interface with other stakeholders to define solution improvement plan

You will have the ownership of solution service availability.

Education:

Engineer or equivalent

Experience:

at least 5 years of experience

Skills and Abilities:

Java development skill is required.

You are familiar with Public Cloud (GCP, AWS), containers and microservices (Docker, Kubernetes, Java), CI/CD and automation (Jenkins, Gitlab, Helm), NoSQL database.

Certification

GCP cloud architect certification is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

You have already set up product monitoring and the underlying infrastructure

You have development experience in a distributed systems and/or high availability context

You are familiar with microservices development

You participated in the definition of architectures, data structures, algorithms with performance, security, reliability constraints, etc.

Public cloud architect certification

You are interested in aspects of Site Reliability Engineer: CI/CD, automation, monitoring and observability, and continuous improvement.

You are an accomplished, versatile and multi-tasking developer engineer.

Must have U.S. or Dual Citizenship and be able to obtain post-hire clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the U.S. (CFIUS) and Department of Treasury

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Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

• Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Whole Group Life w/LTC, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Plan, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance
• Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and a match, and with no vesting period
• Company paid holidays and Paid Time Off
• Company provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Disability, Employee Assistance Plan, and Well-being Program