Platform Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create, implement, and sustain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.

• Develop and oversee infrastructure-as-code solutions for consistent and dependable deployments.

• Enhance platform reliability, resilience, scalability, and performance.

• Collaborate with engineering teams on reliability and observability initiatives.

• Assist in disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity efforts.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

• Automate operational tasks and refine deployment processes.

• Optimize development workflows and minimize operational overhead.

• Advance release management practices and deployment strategies.

• Advocate for DevOps best practices across the organization.

• Monitor production systems to identify opportunities for availability and performance enhancements.

• Engage in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident evaluations.

• Develop and uphold monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability frameworks.

• Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and reliability metrics.

• Participate in on-call rotations and manage critical production incidents.

• Implement secure infrastructure protocols in collaboration with Security and Engineering teams.

• Aid in vulnerability remediation, patch management, access controls, and security monitoring.

• Contribute to compliance initiatives and infrastructure controls.

• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and operational best practices.

• Work with Engineering, Product, QA, and Security teams collaboratively.

• Document infrastructure, operational processes, and technical standards.

• Enhance reliability, efficiency, developer experience, and operational excellence.

• Participate in technical discussions, architectural reviews, and long-term platform strategy.

• Foster consensus on standards and establish the organizational golden path.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or a similar role.

• Extensive experience in managing and supporting production cloud environments.

• Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

• Strong grasp of infrastructure-as-code principles and tools.

• Experience in troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex operational challenges.

• Knowledge of networking, security, scalability, and high-availability architectures.

• Strong scripting or automation experience with languages like Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.

• Experience collaborating closely with software engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Ability to balance operational stability with delivery speed and business objectives.

• Experience supporting high-growth SaaS platforms.

• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.

• Proficiency in Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Experience using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar automation platforms.

• Familiarity with Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or similar observability tools.

• Experience in Database Operations, Database Scaling, Query Optimization, and BCDR.

• Experience implementing zero-downtime deployments.

• Understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and operational governance practices.

• Experience building highly available, mission-critical applications and services.

• Experience supporting distributed and remote engineering teams.

• All applicants must be eligible to work for any US employer in the United States.

• Locality Media LLC cannot sponsor or transition sponsorship ownership of employment visas.

• Successful completion of a criminal background check is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Medical coverage

• Dental coverage

• Vision coverage

• FSA/HSA

• 401(k)

• Flexible PTO

• Fully remote workplace

• Technology stipend

• Opportunities for advancement

• Minimal travel expectations

• Reasonable accommodation during employment and interview processes