SRE Engineer - Artifactory & Security Operations

JFrog Artifactory ecosystem. As the primary administrator for our artifact

management platform, you will ensure high availability, security, and performance for

critical CI/CD pipelines. This role is ideal for an expert who deeply understands the

JFrog ecosystem-specifically Artifactory, Xray, and Curation-and who enjoys

optimizing complex infrastructure, automating operational toil, and leading incident

response for mission-critical core services.

You will need:

Deep expertise in managing enterprise-grade JFrog Artifactory, Xray, and Curation

clusters.

Strong hands-on experience with artifact scanning security policies and

infrastructure reliability.

Proficient in Python and shell scripting, with a focus on automation and API-driven

workflows.

Ability to manage complex distributed systems, including troubleshooting message

queues (e.g., RabbitMQ) and infrastructure scaling.

Familiarity with on-call support, incident response, and vendor management (JFrog

support).

What You Will Do

Manage and Architect Artifactory Infrastructure

Deploy, scale, and maintain large-scale, distributed Artifactory, Xray, and

Curation clusters across multiple datacenters.

Design and enforce security policies (e.g., scan-before-download) while

maintaining high availability and minimizing performance impact.

Plan and execute version upgrades, node expansions, and infrastructure

migration (on-prem to Kubernetes/EKS).

Manage complex dependencies, including RabbitMQ/event-streaming

backends and database synchronization.

Build Automation and Observability

Develop Python-based automation tools to manage artifact lifecycles,

configuration drift, and self-service repository creation.

Implement rigorous monitoring, alerting, and observability (e.g., Elastic,

Prometheus, Grafana) to proactively detect degradation in Xray/Artifactory

health.

Develop runbooks for datacenter failover, cluster resets, and recovery

procedures.

Configuration Management and IaC

Manage infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) to ensure

environment consistency across development, staging, and production.

Enforce security baselines and configuration standards for repository

management and user access.

Reliability Engineering and Support

Lead incident response for Artifactory/Xray-related outages, performing root

cause analysis (RCA) and implementing long-term preventative measures.

Partner with CI/CD and engineering teams to optimize build/test performance

and resolve artifact retrieval issues.

Participate in an on-call rotation, providing expert-level support for

high-priority (SEV) incidents.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles supporting

critical infrastructure.

Proven hands-on expertise with JFrog Artifactory, Xray, and Curation in large-scale

production environments.

3+ years of Python development for automation scripts, REST API integrations, and

operational tooling.

Experience with configuration management or IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

Strong Linux systems administration knowledge and understanding of distributed

systems (clustering, high availability).

Familiarity with message queue systems (e.g., RabbitMQ) and troubleshooting

complex backend service dependencies.

Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and clear written and verbal

communication.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/EKS and migrating on-prem services to

containerized environments.

Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline orchestration (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).

SRE/DevOps philosophy: experience with observability, SLO/SLI definition, and

postmortem/RCA processes.

Experience with global traffic management or datacenter failover strategies for core

services.

Experience managing Security/Compliance requirements within an artifact

management system (e.g., managing vulnerability scan thresholds).