Technical Lead - SRE

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead our new Product Reliability Team. Your responsibility will be to help drive innovation, increase platform stability, and create operational excellence from within a development team, across Imperva’s product portfolio. The person taking this role will have input in decisions that will have a significant impact on our products, how they are deployed and the infrastructure and operational decisions behind them. The person selected for this role will be able to build a team from the ground up, make a genuine impact on our operational excellence and be able to tangibly improve our platform and applications with their knowledge and their diligence.

Responsibilities:

• Your responsibility will be to help drive innovation, increase platform stability, and create operational excellence from within a development team, across Imperva’s product portfolio.

• The person taking this role will have input in decisions that will have a significant impact on our products, how they are deployed and the infrastructure and operational decisions behind them.

• The person selected for this role will be able to build a team from the ground up, make a genuine impact on our operational excellence and be able to tangibly improve our platform and applications with their knowledge and their diligence..

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

• Enable and educate development teams on industry best practice design patterns, ways of working and operational knowledge to ensure platform continuity

• Develop and architect solutions to infrastructure and operational aspects of new products and feature sets

• Work within development teams to troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issues

• Contribute to improving Imperva’s global systems performance and stability

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of professional experience, at least 2 years within a leadership role

• A strong technical background, with current capabilities and willingness to get hands on when needed

• Excellent knowledge of Linux and scripting languages (Bash, Python, Golang) • Excellent knowledge of cloud and on-premise systems administration principles

• End user experience with CI/CD Systems (Jenkins, ArgoCD)

• Significant Understanding of DevOps principles

• Excellent Knowledge and experience with logging and monitoring tooling (Datadog, Coralogix, Grafana, Prometheus)

• Good knowledge of web scale networking (Routing protocols, DNS)

• A strong team player who is accountable towards business urgency

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