Associate Engineer, Site Reliability

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Associate Engineer, Site Reliability

Remote, United States

Job Description

At Verint, we believe customer engagement is the core of every global brand. Our mission is to help organizations elevate Customer Experience (CX) and increase workforce productivity by delivering CX Automation. We hire innovators with the passion, creativity, and drive to answer constantly shifting market challenges and deliver impactful results for our customers. Our commitment to attracting and retaining a talented, diverse, and engaged team creates a collaborative environment that openly celebrates all cultures and affords personal and professional growth opportunities. Learn more at www.verint.com.

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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More Information

Verint Systems Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination, retaliation, and sexual and any other form of harassment. Verint has a zero-tolerance policy against any form of discrimination, retaliation, or harassment including sexual harassment or any other form of harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and any other classification or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Verint operates in accordance with all anti-discrimination laws and affords equal opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic or protected class in our hiring, promotion and termination practices.