Site Reliability Engineer

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

We’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries - from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace - and from manufacturing to engineering, we work together to build a future we can all trust.

Imperva, a Thales company, is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, dedicated to securing data and applications across diverse environments. Our cutting-edge solutions empower organizations to safeguard their most critical assets, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

We’re proud to be recognized as one of Israel’s Top 50 High-Tech Companies to Work For in 2024 (Dun & Bradstreet) and offer a flexible hybrid work model from our Rehovot office.

We are looking for an Site Reliability Engineer to work with a newly formed Site Reliability Group. Your responsibility will be to help drive innovation, scale our platforms, and create operational excellence for the Imperva globally distributed network. The person taking this role will have

significant input in decisions that will have a significant impact on Imperva’s infrastructure and how we serve our customers.

As an SRE in the ICO organization, you will work with your team solving problems, supporting and optimizing the infrastructure programmatically. You will work with your team to improve the overall availability, reliability, performance, and security of the infrastructure under control.

Key Responsibility:

Apply SRE core tenets of measurement (SLI/SLO/SLA), eliminate toil, and reliability modelling.

Establish metrics for data-driven decisions to help increase availability, reliability, and velocity.

Build and maintain, and evolve SLO and SLI network/system/application baselines.

Assist with go/no go preplanning, verification/validation, and review of existing and new product/services.

Proactively analyze data and test the integrity of network/systems to ensure production applications and services are operating optimally.

Work with internal customers as needed to troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issues.

Escalations, incident response, RCA, and blameless post-mortem.

Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

Requirements:

At least 3 years of professional experience within a cloud/web/CDN scale infrastructure.

Experience with Python and Go. C/C++ a plus.

Expert knowledge of Linux systems, network programming and protocols TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP.

Experience with BGP and Anycast routing is a plus.

Experience with DevOps principles and concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Salt stack), CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Git), monitoring and visualization (Prometheus, Grafana).

Experience with big data technologies such as NoSQL/RDBMS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka.

Experience with containers and container management (Docker, Kubernetes).

Experience analyzing and building data telemetry, modelling, pipelines, UI visualization.

Experience in developing software, troubleshooting, and monitoring large scale distributed systems.

Implement software engineering best practices/standards and software development life cycle.

Working knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodologies.

Outstanding collaboration and communication, and documentation skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally.

BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.

Thales, champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.