Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design new and existing systems to improve performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Develop and refine CI/CD pipelines.

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

• Enforce security controls in distributed systems and agents.

• Oversee the automation of deployments and configurations across various platforms.

• Create scalable automation for implementing observability.

• Identify areas for enhancing observability and standardizing processes.

• Develop alerts and notifications, responding to monitoring tools.

• Integrate observability into daily operations with application teams.

• Participate in post-mortem analyses, root cause investigations, and follow-up action items.

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

• Contribute to hybrid-cloud production containerization services.

• Design and establish standards, policies, and procedures for automation and integrations.

• Acquire knowledge of toolsets and propose or implement features to enhance operations.

• Ensure that security production systems function effectively within uptime goals and remain updated with content and functionality.

• Monitor system performance and capacity; recommend and execute changes and automate repetitive tasks.

• Collaborate with developers in a hybrid on-premise and cloud-native environment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 6 years of experience; Master's Degree with 5 years of experience; or PhD with no experience.

• Treat security best practices as essential, not an afterthought.

• Knowledge of cloud platform administration (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Familiarity with observability principles.

• Experience in high-scale environments and distributed architectures.

• Understanding of Agile/DevOps methodologies.

• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).

• Familiarity with Docker workloads using Kubernetes/Amazon ECS.

• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.

• Comfortable managing Linux and Windows environments.

• Preferred: exposure to SPIRE/SPIFFE.

• Preferred: hands-on experience with Terraform/Crossplane.

• Preferred: expertise in Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Python, Elixir, and Go.

• Preferred: experience integrating MCP Servers with authorization controls.

• Preferred: knowledge of NoSQL, relational databases, and query languages.

• Preferred: AWS Cloud Practitioner/Azure AZ-900 Certification.

• Preferred: substantial experience with serverless architecture solutions.

• Preferred: experience deploying containerized applications.

• Preferred: familiarity with data management and pipeline technologies.

• Preferred: previous experience working in an Agile team.

• Preferred: experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar observability tools.

• Preferred: knowledge of distributed system architectures and telemetry.

• Preferred: experience deploying and managing large Kubernetes distributed platforms.

• Preferred: knowledge of GitOps and Infrastructure as Code systems such as Terraform, ArgoCD, and Helm.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick leave).

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Short-term incentive programs.

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