Site Reliability Engineer | Junior | SRE

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At NordLayer, we’re building cybersecurity that scales with the business.

A toggle-ready platform that helps modern teams thrive—without the security headaches. Trusted by 11,000+ global companies, NordLayer plugs into any tech stack and protects users across borders.

Your impact? Helping businesses stay protected and moving forward with future-ready network security.

Join our team to help build and run reliable, secure, and performant systems. As a Junior SRE, you’ll work closely with engineering, QA, and security to improve service reliability through smart monitoring, automation, and operational excellence.

Main Responsibilities

  • Monitor service reliability, performance, and security; proactively mitigate risks
  • Help define and implement SLIs/SLOs and actionable alerting aligned to user impact
  • Troubleshoot and resolve incidents end-to-end; contribute to root-cause analysis and runbooks to prevent recurrence
  • Automate routine tasks, reduce toil, and apply infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles
  • Participate in DayWatch rotations to ensure availability and timely response
  • Collaborate with developers and QA to deliver reliable changes via CI/CD
  • Contribute to capacity planning, change management, and blameless post-incident reviews
  • Continuously learn and adopt SRE best practices.

Core Requirements

  • Basic understanding of Linux system administration, DevOps, or SRE
  • Strong analytical mindset, problem-solving skills, and a proactive, results-oriented approach
  • Understanding of monitoring and observability fundamentals (metrics, logs, alerts).Familiarity with IaC concepts
  • Fundamental networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP).Team-spirited, detail-oriented, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent written and spoken English.

Bonus Points For

  • Automation with Bash, Ansible, Puppet or similar tools; exposure to Terraform
  • Ability to read/write or modify simple code (e.g., Python, Go)
  • Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitLab pipelines)
  • Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of incident management, postmortems, and error budgets
  • Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).

Tools You Will Use

  • GitLab
  • Linux
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Slack
  • Depending on project needs: Ansible/Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana, Puppet and many more.

Salary Range

  • Gross Salary 2400 - 3600 EUR/Month.

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