Senior SRE Engineer - Cloud Operations

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Qdrant is a cutting‑edge vector database company on a mission to revolutionize how organizations manage and query unstructured data. Our open‑source engine and managed cloud solutions power AI‑driven search, recommendation, and data discovery  are a remote‑first company, building a global team of passionate engineers to push the boundaries of database infrastructure.

As a Senior Dev Ops / SRE Engineer on the Cloud Operations team
, you will focus on keeping Qdrant Cloud reliable, observable, and secure as usage and infrastructure complexity grow. Your primary responsibility is operational excellence
: stability, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems.

This role is operations‑heavy
, ideal for engineers who thrive in owning reliability and reducing operational risk at scale.

• Operate and maintain production cloud infrastructure at scale
• Own Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and deployment pipelines
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and follow‑up actions
• Reduce operational toil through automation and better tooling
• Improve reliability, security, and performance of production systems
• Collaborate closely with Platform and Regions & Clusters teams
• Maintain and evolve runbooks, operational procedures, and alerts
• Participate in on‑call rotations and continuous reliability improvements

• 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or infrastructure operations roles
• Strong hands‑on experience operating Kubernetes in production
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and incident management
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and automation tooling
• Comfortable owning on‑call responsibilities and production incidents
• Strong operational mindset and clear communication skills

• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or Open Telemetry
• Exposure to security, compliance, or hardening initiatives
• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience in SaaS, cloud, or data infrastructure environments

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
• Fully remote setup with flexible working hours
• Clear ownership of reliability and operational excellence
• Opportunity to work on mission‑critical customer‑facing infrastructure
• Strong collaboration with platform and engineering teams

If you enjoy keeping complex systems reliable and improving operations through automation and discipline, we’d love to hear from you.

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