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Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! THE OPPORTUNITY The Lead Site Reliability Engineer Incident Management provides technical leadership for production reliability, major incident management, automation, and operational excellence across Qualys' global SaaS platform. This role owns complex cross-functional initiatives, drives engineering best practices, mentors engineers, and partners with architecture and product teams to improve reliability, scalability, and customer experience. WHERE THIS ROLE SITS Partners with Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Database Engineering, Security, Product Engineering, Customer Support, and Executive Leadership. WHAT YOU WILL DO Reliability & Incident Management Lead enterprise-wide critical incident response and serve as Incident Commander. Own end-to-end restoration strategy for complex production outages. Drive executive communications and customer-impact assessments. Lead root cause analysis and systemic reliability improvements. Reliability Engineering & Automation Design self-healing platforms and automation. Improve observability, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets. Reduce MTTD and MTTR through engineering improvements. Operational Excellence Lead capacity planning and operational readiness. Review architecture for reliability and scalability. Drive cross-functional operational standards. Leadership & Collaboration Mentor Senior and Lead SREs. Drive SRE strategy and reliability roadmap. Influence engineering priorities and reliability culture. WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE Drives measurable improvements in availability and resiliency. Builds a culture of automation and operational excellence. Leads major incidents with confidence. Influences engineering decisions across organizations. DISTINGUISHING EXPECTATION Enterprise-wide reliability improvements Reduction in critical incidents Higher automation adoption Leadership across SRE organization REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree or equivalent. 812+ years in SRE/Production Operations. Strong Linux, Kubernetes, Cloud, Networking and Databases. Expertise in Python, Go, Bash or Java. Experience leading major incidents and mentoring engineers. Excellent communication and leadership skills. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Large-scale SaaS experience Multi-cloud expertise Chaos Engineering Cloud/Kubernetes certifications ITIL certification WORK ENVIRONMENT Full-time 24x7 production support On-call leadership Hybrid/Remote Cross-functional collaboration Join our talent community and receive the latest Qualys news, content, and be first in line for new job opportunities. Join our Talent Community! Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.