Verint Systems

Associate Engineer, Site Reliability

Verint Systems$80K — $95K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1-3 years of experience in software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or systems administration.
  • Exposure to at least one public cloud (e.g., AWS or Azure).
  • Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes fundamentals (Docker, Helm, YAML).
  • Strong troubleshooting curiosity and effective communication skills.
  • Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain SLIs and SLOs for services with senior SREs.
  • Write automation scripts to reduce manual tasks in CloudOps.
  • Build and maintain dashboards and telemetry in observability tools.
  • Collaborate with R&D and Operations to enhance service reliability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident responses under guidance.
  • Support automated incident response design and runbook implementation.
  • Continuously learn and apply SRE and cloud best practices.

Benefits

  • Strong mentorship and learning opportunities.
  • Exposure to cross-organizational collaboration in a DevOps environment.
  • Participation in blameless postmortems to enhance team learning.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Overview of Job Function:

As an Associate SRE, you will be a hands-on contributor on the SRE team, supporting reliability, automation, observability, and incident response efforts across the organization. Working under the guidance of senior and principal SREs, you will help implement SLIs/SLOs, reduce manual toil through automation, improve telemetry, and participate in on-call rotations and blameless postmortems. You will be expected to bring a growth mindset, a bias toward "everything-as-code," and a willingness to ask questions, dig into unfamiliar systems, and continuously improve. This role offers strong mentorship and exposure to cross-organizational collaboration in the true spirit of DevOps.

Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities:
  • Implement and maintain SLIs and SLOs for assigned services, working alongside senior SREs
  • Write automation scripts and pipelines to reduce manual toil within CloudOps
  • Contribute to Infrastructure and Configuration as Code (e.g. Terraform, Helm, Ansible)
  • Build, tune, and maintain dashboards, alerts, and telemetry in observability tools
  • Partner with R&D and Operations teams to enhance telemetry and improve service reliability
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and respond to incidents under the guidance of senior engineers
  • Support the design and implementation of automated incident response workflows and runbooks
  • Participate in blameless postmortems and follow up on assigned engineering action items
  • Shadow senior SREs during complex outages, architectural reviews, and fire drills
  • Build AI-powered solutions to operational problems, with a particular focus on improving availability (e.g. agentic incident triage, predictive alerting, automated remediation, AI-assisted runbooks)
  • Continuously learn cloud, Kubernetes, and SRE best practices and apply them to daily work
  • Take ownership of assigned tasks and communicate progress, blockers, and learnings clearly

Minimum Requirements:
  • B.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience, including bootcamps or demonstrable self-taught work)
  • 1-3 years of professional experience in software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or systems administration
  • Exposure to at least one public cloud (AWS or Azure)
  • Exposure to containers and Kubernetes fundamentals (Docker, Helm, YAML)
  • Familiarity with Linux and shell scripting; exposure to Windows/PowerShell a plus
  • Comfortable using Git for branching, pull requests, and merges
  • Strong troubleshooting curiosity and willingness to dig into unfamiliar systems
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Growth mindset - actively seeks feedback and continuously improves
  • High level of personal ownership, accountability, and drive

Preferred Skills:
  • Entry-level cloud certification (AWS Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, or SysOps Associate; Azure Fundamentals)
  • Familiarity with at least one observability tool (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, SumoLogic, AppDynamics, etc.)
  • Working proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, Go, Java, C#, etc.)
  • Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Pulumi)
  • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
  • Internship, co-op, or project experience with SaaS, PaaS, or multi-tenant environments
  • Familiarity with incident management tools (OpsGenie, PagerDuty, ServiceNow)
  • Exposure to Agile and DevOps practices
  • Academic, open-source, or personal projects demonstrating automation, reliability, or observability work
  • Experience with AI agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and integrating AI capabilities into solutions and workflows
  • Detail oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Positive, collaborative energy and a desire to contribute to a growing team

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About Verint Systems

Verint Systems Inc. is a global leader in Actionable Intelligence® solutions with a focus on customer engagement optimization and cyber intelligence. Today, over 10,000 organizations in more than 180 countries—including over 85 percent of the Fortune 100—count on intelligence from Verint solutions to make more informed, effective and timely decisions. Verint’s solutions help organizations address three important challenges: customer engagement optimization; security intelligence; and fraud, risk and compliance. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.
Learn more about Verint Systems
Size
4,400 employees
Market Cap
$2.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.5 million
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
-3.8%
Revenue
$1.2 billion
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