At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re ambitious. We’re game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you’re like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you.
So, what’s the role all about?
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for NiCE CXone’s observability tools. This position collaborates with different teams within the company to create and support observability solutions using open-source and enterprise monitoring tools. SREs will work with various monitoring tools located in NiCE CXone’s private cloud environments, AWS and other cloud providers. SREs also provide education to other teams on use of different monitoring tools. They may help define best practices and procedures for using observability tools and ensure that other engineers follow these standards. This position may develop detailed implementation/project plans for deployment of observability solutions. The SRE team leverages automation tools to deploy and manage observability tools. The SRE team actively seeks to learn and evaluate emerging technologies, collaborating with other business units within the company to implement changes that will improve our monitoring and alerting capabilities. This position requires a lot of curiosity, a proven ability to learn quickly and an aptitude for tackling unique problems that need creative solutions.
A good candidate could have a few different combinations of technical experience; we have seen people succeed in this role with NOC, technical support, software development or system administration experience. Showcase your ability to troubleshoot and solve problems and learn new tech fast! We are looking for aptitude and potential, not someone who can tick every box.
How will you make an impact?
- Administer open-source, custom built and enterprise observability tools
- Assist other teams with setting up alerts and notifications
- Support and troubleshoot observability tools to ensure they remain available to our internal customers
- Troubleshoot connections between monitoring agents and SaaS tools
- Configure monitoring agents and applications using JSON, yaml
- Troubleshoot issues with Windows and Linux observability agents
- Collect data from APIs and observability endpoints
- Deploy observability agents and applications using automation tools
- Create automation to eliminate toil and repetitive tasks
- Assist with the enablement and collection of metrics, logs and traces
- Create dashboards in several different observability tools to effectively visualize our data
- Collaborate with other teams to engineer solutions that solve their observability problems
- Train other teams on using observability tools
- Evaluate and document custom monitoring tools built by other engineers
- Other duties as assigned
Have you got what it takes?
- Associate degree in Computer Sciences, Information Technology, Information Services, or equivalent work experience
- Experience working for a SaaS company, with a good understanding of the complexity associated with building in a hybrid cloud environment
- Great troubleshooting skills, seriously, can you track down a problem to its root cause by paying attention to small details in long error messages?
- Experience with any combination of open-source and enterprise observability tools (Prometheus & Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic)
- Experience with scripting or writing code, this role does require reviewing and occasionally adding to internally developed monitoring tools (Bash, PowerShell, Python, C#, GoLang)
- Comfortable diving unto JSON, yaml and other configuration formats
- Experience in one of the following: Ansible, Rundeck, Salt, Terraform, Chef, Puppet
- Experience troubleshooting network related issues
- Experience working with and troubleshooting REST APIs
- Experience with Windows or Linux administration
- Great communication skills, we collaborate with other teams a lot and we need someone who can convey things in a way that makes sense to both engineers and project managers
- Leadership, we don’t expect you to be a manager, but we’d love it if you can show us a time in your life when you helped guide others towards a winning solution
You will have an advantage if you also have:
- Experience configuring logging agents, rules and pipelines
- Familiarity with APM tools or Synthetic Monitors
- Experience with VoIP solutions
- Networking experience
- Experience working with BMC products (especially Helix)
- Experience working with applications driven by .NET, SQL, and other common Microsoft technologies
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and employees will also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.
What’s in it for you?
Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NICEr!
Enjoy NICE-FLEX!
At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.
Requisition ID: 10563
Reporting into: Manager, Cloud Operations, CX
Role Type: Individual Contributor
About NiCE
NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NiCE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions.
Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.
NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.
Skills Required
- Associate degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent experience
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Scripting experience (Bash, PowerShell, Python, etc.)
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience in Windows or Linux administration
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The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NICE and has not been reviewed or approved by NICE.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as broad and comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental-health support. Added programs like FSA options and fitness stipends contribute to a well-rounded health and wellness offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) is part of the package, sometimes paired with match details that are described as typical to stronger depending on role and time period. Employee stock participation is also positioned as an additional long-term wealth-building component for eligible roles.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work arrangements are emphasized, including hybrid setups and remote options for some roles. Flex scheduling, paid holidays, and paid sick time add to the perceived flexibility of the overall rewards package.
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What We Do
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) is the worldwide leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced analytics of structured and unstructured data. NICE helps organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions. www.nice.com.
