Site Reliability Engineer | Junior | SRE
hybrid
Product
Vilnius
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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