Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer, SRE

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and support reliability solutions and SRE tools utilizing Python within AWS environments.

• Create automation scripts, APIs, and utilities aimed at minimizing toil and enhancing platform reliability.

• Implement observability and monitoring solutions through Grafana and AWS CloudWatch, incorporating custom metrics and dashboards.

• Construct and refine Terraform Infrastructure as Code for AWS resources while integrating Python workflows.

• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing processes to ensure code quality, reliability, and swift delivery.

• Establish SRE standards, best practices, guidelines, and metrics, including SLIs and SLOs.

• Utilize version control, conduct code reviews, practice test-driven development, and maintain thorough documentation.

• Engage in incident management and participate in the on-call rotation.

• Offer technical support for SRE tools and troubleshoot production issues as needed.

• Collaborate with teams to minimize the recurrence of incidents through proactive detection and pattern analysis.

• Stay updated on AWS services, SRE methodologies, and cloud-native development technologies.

• Work alongside cross-functional teams within Agile and Scaled Agile frameworks.

• Generate clear, blameless postmortems that include actionable items and document failure scenarios.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

• Capability to obtain and maintain the necessary Public Trust level Clearance.

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of relevant experience, or a High School diploma or equivalent with 12 years of experience.

• Over 5 years of advanced Python development experience in creating enterprise-grade, highly available tools, APIs, and utilities for AWS.

• More than 7 years of extensive software development experience concentrating on reliability and platform engineering.

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in developing solutions within AWS environments.

• Profound understanding of AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, and Step Functions.

• Experience in optimizing AWS resource costs.

• A minimum of 3 years applying SRE principles, including observability, toil automation, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability engineering.

• Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, covering module development and state management.

• Strong background with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices.

• Familiarity with Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS Canary.

• Experience in defining, implementing, and managing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.

• Knowledge of conducting RCAs and producing postmortem documentation.

• Practical experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments.

• Understanding of ITSM processes, resilience testing, and chaos engineering practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime.

• Potential eligibility for shift differential.

• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus.