Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid (Austin)

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

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.