Mid Site Reliability Engineer – Automation & Virtualization

About the role

We’re looking for a passionate and skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Platform Engineering team. This role is pivotal in automating and managing VMware ESXi hypervisors across Dell and Cisco UCS platforms, ensuring high reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and patch ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager, iDRAC, and UCS Central.
• Validate host readiness and enforce consistency across environments.
• Build and maintain automation pipelines with PowerCLI, Python, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Create Infrastructure‑as‑Code templates for scalable provisioning.
• Administer NSX‑T/V for logical switching, routing, and micro‑segmentation.
• Troubleshoot endpoint tagging and network performance issues between NSX and ESXi.
• Implement observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Dynatrace.
• Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Lead modernization projects such as UCS blade decommissioning and Dell R760 upgrades.
• Optimize cluster and VM sizing for performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with application, storage, and network teams to align infrastructure with workload needs.
• Maintain build guides, validation checklists, and operational runbooks.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong scripting abilities in PowerCLI, Python, or Go.
• Hands‑on experience with VMware ESXi, vCenter, NSX, and UCS Manager.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Familiarity with observability platforms and incident response workflows.

Required skills

• PowerCLI
• Python
• Go
• VMware ESXi
• vCenter
• NSX‑T/V
• UCS Manager
• Terraform
• Ansible
• CI/CD pipeline tools
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• REST API integration
• GitOps
• AIOps
• Chaos engineering