Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design and enhance both new and existing systems to boost performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Develop and refine CI/CD pipelines.

• Support the management, development, design, and deployment of microservices and containerized applications.

• Enforce security measures in distributed systems and agents.

• Automate deployment processes and configurations in collaboration with engineers and developers.

• Create scalable automation for implementing observability.

• Discover opportunities to enhance observability and streamline processes.

• Standardize and create alerts and notifications, responding to monitoring tools appropriately.

• Integrate observability into daily operations alongside application teams.

• Participate in post-mortems, root-cause analysis, and follow-up action items.

• Advocate for DevOps best practices and engage in Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Support hybrid-cloud production containerization services.

• Develop and enforce standards, policies, and procedures for automation and integrations.

• Familiarize yourself with AbbVie’s toolsets and implement features to enhance operations.

• Ensure the Security Team's production systems function effectively within uptime goals and remain up-to-date with content and functionality.

• Monitor system performance and capacity, proactively suggesting and implementing changes while automating repetitive tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years of experience, a Master’s Degree with 5 years of experience, or a PhD with no experience.

• Treat security best practices as essential, not optional.

• Proficiency in cloud platform administration: AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Understanding of observability pillars.

• Experience in high-scale environments and familiarity with distributed architectures.

• Knowledge of Agile/DevOps methodologies.

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.

• Familiarity with Docker workloads managed by Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.

• Ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively.

• Quick learner capable of adapting to new concepts and processes.

• Comfortable managing Linux and Windows environments.

• Exposure to and implementation of SPIRE/SPIFFE (preferred).

• Direct experience with Terraform/Crossplane (preferred).

• Proficiency in Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Python, Elixir, or Go (preferred).

• Experience with integrating MCP Servers with authorization controls (preferred).

• Knowledge of NoSQL, relational databases, and their query languages (preferred).

• AWS Cloud Practitioner or Azure AZ-900 certification (preferred).

• Extensive experience designing serverless architecture solutions (preferred).

• Proven experience deploying containerized applications, including Kubernetes (preferred).

• Familiarity with data management and pipeline technologies such as Apache Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark, or Hadoop (preferred).

• Previous experience working in an Agile team (preferred).

• Strong understanding of observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar applications (preferred).

• Excellent grasp of distributed system architectures and telemetry (preferred).

• Experience in deploying and managing large Kubernetes distributed platforms (preferred).

• Proficiency in GitOps practices and Infrastructure as Code systems like Terraform, ArgoCD, or Helm (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid time off, encompassing vacation, holidays, and sick leave.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Eligibility for short-term incentive programs.

• Option for remote work from anywhere in the U.S.