
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Nexthink - Remote - Global
Site Reliability Engineer
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Job Description
At Nexthink, we empower our customers with industry-leading solutions to enable continuous improvement of employee experience. We deliver unmatched visibility across all environments, so IT teams can consistently see, diagnose, and fix digital workplace issues. As a SaaS provider, our commitment is to deliver a seamless, resilient, and scalable platform around the clock. We are looking for an experienced, proactive and innovative professional that is keen to join as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer! The mission of Nexthink's SRE team is to strengthen our infrastructure and enhance our ability to deploy, monitor, and scale systems effectively and reliably. They work closely with over 50 Product Engineering teams that develop our products and services, as well as with the Technical Platform Engineering, Security and Architecture teams to understand the reliability requirements, design and implement solutions, and promote them for adoption and usage. Join our vibrant team of diverse and experienced engineers where cutting-edge technology meets innovation. Be a part of Nexthink's Digital Employee Experience technological revolution, ensuring our global customers enjoy a seamless user experience. Apply now and become a key player in our dynamic SRE organisation. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will:* Implement and manage cloud-native systems (AWS) using best-in-class tools and automation.* Operate and enhance Kubernetes clusters, deployment pipelines, and service meshes to support rapid delivery cycles.* Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering our multi-tenant SaaS platform with reliability, security, and scalability in mind.* Define and maintain SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets, and proactively address availability and performance issues.* Develop infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) for repeatable and auditable provisioning.* Build internal platform tools and automation to support provisioning, monitoring, and operational efficiency.* Monitor infrastructure and applications ensuring high-quality user experiences.* Participate in a shared on-call rotation, responding to incidents, troubleshooting outages, and driving timely resolution and communication.* Act as an Incident Commander during the on-call duty and coordinate cross-team responses effectively to maintain an SLA.* Drive and refine incident response processes, reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).* Diagnose and resolve complex issues independently, minimizing the need for external escalation.* Work closely with software engineers to embed observability, fault tolerance, and reliability principles into service design.* Automate runbooks, health checks, and alerting to support reliable operations with minimal manual intervention.* Support automated testing, canary deployments, and rollback strategies to ensure safe, fast, and reliable releases.* Contribute to security best practices, compliance automation, and cost optimization.
Company Information
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 28 |
| Remote - North America | 2 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 7 |
| Corporate Security Engineer | 5 |
| Sales Representative | 3 |
| Engagement Manager | 1 |
| Consultant | 1 |
| Data Analyst / Engineer | 1 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Professional Services Consultant | 1 |
| Total Rewards & Transformation | 1 |
| AI Researcher | 1 |
| Product Support Engineer | 1 |
| Human Resources Specialist | 1 |
| GTM Project Manager | 1 |
| Search Engineer | 1 |
| Full Stack Developer | 1 |
| Product Security Engineer | 1 |
| Client Director | 1 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 23 |
| Senior | 2 |
| Mid-level | 1 |
Nexthink appears in 30 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Remote - Global and Remote - North America.
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Job Details
Responsibilities
- Implement and manage cloud-native systems (AWS) using best-in-class tools and automation.
- Operate and enhance Kubernetes clusters, deployment pipelines, and service meshes to support rapid delivery cycles.
- Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering our multi-tenant SaaS platform with reliability, security, and scalability in mind.
- Define and maintain SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets, and proactively address availability and performance issues.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) for repeatable and auditable provisioning.
- Build internal platform tools and automation to support provisioning, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
- Monitor infrastructure and applications ensuring high-quality user experiences.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation, responding to incidents, troubleshooting outages, and driving timely resolution and communication.
- Act as an Incident Commander during the on-call duty and coordinate cross-team responses effectively to maintain an SLA.
- Drive and refine incident response processes, reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues independently, minimizing the need for external escalation.
- Work closely with software engineers to embed observability, fault tolerance, and reliability principles into service design.
- Automate runbooks, health checks, and alerting to support reliable operations with minimal manual intervention.
- Support automated testing, canary deployments, and rollback strategies to ensure safe, fast, and reliable releases.
- Contribute to security best practices, compliance automation, and cost optimization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or Platform Engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong programming or scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
- Experience supporting microservices architectures
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, FluxCD)
- Experience with monitoring solutions (Datadog)
- Comfortable with on-call management and incident response
- Strong troubleshooting skills and Linux knowledge
- Understanding of network stack, cloud architectures, service mesh, storage
- Knowledge of deployment strategies and compliance standards
- Experience with chaos engineering or resilience testing
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Fluent in English
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