SRE - Nexus.corp /SonarQube Engineer

Job Title: SRE - Nexus.corp /SonarQube Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 16 Months

No C2C allowed
 
Job Description
 
Position Summary
Organization: IT — Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) / Developer Experience Platform (DEP)
Reports To: Engineering Manager; works alongside Nexus Compliance/HA Platform Engineer (India)
Seniority: Level 3 (Senior)
 
About the Role
Client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to take ownership of two enterprise services: Nexus.corp (artifact repository serving hundreds of developers) and SonarQube (code quality platform covering an enterprise-scale codebase). These services are critical to the client''s software development lifecycle and are being elevated to dedicated ownership as part of a broader platform maturity initiative.
 
Your allocation will be approximately 80% Nexus.corp and 20% SonarQube. You will own day-to-day operations, upgrades, security compliance, and monitoring. You will work closely with a counterpart in India who focuses on compliance and high-availability build-out as Nexus.corp undergoes a criticality raise.
 
What You''ll Do

• Own day-to-day operations of Nexus.corp and SonarQube — be the accountable engineer for both services
• Perform version upgrades and system patching for both platforms
• Manage Nexus IQ Server integration, Repository Firewall, and malware detection
• Automate secret rotation (transitioning from manual to AAP-automated)
• Migrate monitoring from SumoLogic to Datadog — dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLO
• Remediate Qualys vulnerabilities and close compliance gaps
• Handle SNOW tickets — repository creation, permissions, proxy configuration, troubleshooting
• Coordinate with the India-based Compliance/HA engineer on criticality transition work
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for both services
• Create and maintain operational runbooks and documentation
• Participate in on-call rotation

 
Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or production operations
• Nexus Repository Manager administration (or equivalent artifact repository: JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact) 
• Linux systems administration (RHEL)
• Scripting proficiency — Python and/or Bash
• Monitoring and observability — Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent
• CI/CD pipeline experience (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Incident management — on-call, incident response, root cause analysis
• Strong documentation skills

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Sonatype IQ Server and Repository Firewall experience
• SonarQube administration
• Enterprise compliance frameworks (ESS)
• Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform)
• AWS infrastructure operations

 
Key Stakeholders

• ALM/DEP — Platform ownership, priority alignment
• Engineering teams — Hundreds of developers relying on artifact services
• InfoSec — Compliance, vulnerability remediation, malware response
• Sonatype — Vendor support and product guidance
• PCO/Ops — Infrastructure and networking

 
This Role Is NOT

• A compliance-only role — the India counterpart handles the resilience build-out
• Nexus SaaS operations — that is handled by a separate team member
• A temporary engagement — these services need a long-term dedicated owner