Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Enterprise Identity and Access

at Nvidia
📍 Santa Clara, United States
USD 192,000-304,800 per year
SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Ansible @ 4 Consul @ 4 Go @ 6 Grafana @ 4 Jenkins @ 7 Kubernetes @ 4 Linux @ 6 Prometheus @ 4 Vault @ 4 DevOps @ 8 IaC @ 4 Terraform @ 4 Python @ 6 GCP @ 4 CI/CD @ 4 AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Networking @ 6 SRE @ 4 CloudFormation @ 4 Reporting @ 4 OpenShift @ 7 Audit @ 4 Compliance @ 4 OpenTelemetry @ 6

Details

At NVIDIA, continuous innovation in AI and accelerated computing demands robust, automated, and secure production environments. We are seeking a deeply skilled Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to advance our enterprise security initiatives around identity and access, delivering zero trust outcomes by implementing, integrating, and scaling innovative technologies across cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, operationalize, and scale zero trust identity and access platforms, driving reliability, automation, and secure credential and policy management across on-premise and cloud environments.
  • Integrate and automate deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of commercial and open-source products (SPIRE, Teleport, etc.), emphasizing ephemeral certificate-based authentication, mTLS, and SPIFFE protocols.
  • Advocate and implement operational guidelines for CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), policy as code, and security observability using tools like Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitLab CI, Terraform, Vault, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Apply AI-assisted and data-driven approaches to automate anomaly detection, incident response, and compliance reporting to improve uptime and threat mitigation.
  • Collaborate with engineering, DevSecOps, and security teams to minimize manual intervention, limit privileged access, and enforce policy compliance through scalable automation.
  • Lead incident management, triaging, and blameless postmortems with security context for rapid root-cause analysis and recovery.
  • Conduct ongoing risk assessments, address emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and contribute to post-incident reviews focused on reliability and trust boundary breaches.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of software engineering / DevOps / SRE experience with significant focus on operational security, automation, and identity management.
  • Strong software engineering background with emphasis on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Proficiency in Linux administration, networking concepts, and security protocols.
  • Proven experience integrating and operating container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Nomad) and strong emphasis on automation and CI/CD (Argo CD, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.).
  • Hands-on knowledge of zero trust security principles, including SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS, X.509 rotation, SSO, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP, and cloud IAM services.
  • Experience with secrets management (Vault, AWS/Azure/Google Secret Manager, Kubernetes Secrets) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation).
  • Proficient in observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry) and policy automation frameworks.
  • Proficient in automation using Python, Go, or similar languages.
  • Demonstrated ability leading operational and incident response efforts at scale, developing runbooks and playbooks leveraging automation and AI tools.

Ways to Stand Out

  • Direct experience operationalizing service mesh, identity federation, or policy engines in reliability-focused environments (Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect).
  • Track record advancing zero trust architecture through automation and minimized human access, including ephemeral credentials and policy enforcement.
  • Background in integrating AI/ML-assisted tools for operational intelligence, anomaly detection, and reliability improvements.
  • Experience driving compliance, audit readiness, and operational security in cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and hybrid environments.
  • Relevant security/DevOps/SRE certifications and open-source contributions.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary range: 192,000 USD - 304,750 USD (determined by location, experience, and peer pay).
  • Eligible for equity and NVIDIA benefits (details on NVIDIA benefits page).

Additional Information

  • Location: US, CA, Santa Clara.
  • Employment type: Full time.
  • Applications accepted at least until October 3, 2025.
  • NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer and committed to fostering a diverse work environment.