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 microservice and containerized applications.

• Enforce security measures in distributed systems and agents.

• Automate deployment processes and configurations across various platforms.

• Create scalable automation for implementing observability.

• Spot opportunities to enhance observability and streamline processes.

• Standardize alerts and notifications while responding to monitoring tools.

• Apply observability practices in the daily operations of applications.

• Participate in post-mortems and root cause analyses.

• Execute action items resulting from post-mortem discussions.

• Advocate for DevOps best practices.

• Engage in and promote Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Contribute to hybrid-cloud production containerization services.

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

• Familiarize yourself with toolsets and propose or implement features to enhance operations.

• Monitor production security systems for performance and capacity.

• Proactively suggest and implement changes to systems.

• Automate repetitive tasks and reduce toil.

• Collaborate with developers and engineers to ensure reliable production systems.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Security best practices are essential.

• Proficiency in cloud platform administration (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Understanding of observability pillars.

• Experience in high-scale environments and distributed architectures.

• Familiarity with Agile / DevOps methodologies.

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

• Knowledge of Docker workloads utilizing Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.

• Capability to work both independently and as part of a team.

• Comfortable managing Linux and Windows environments.

• Preferred: familiarity with SPIRE/SPIFFE.

• Preferred: direct experience with Terraform/Crossplane.

• Proficient with development tools and scripting languages (Git, Mercurial, Subversion; Python, Elixir, Go).

• Understanding of database management systems and query languages.

• AWS Cloud Practitioner or Azure AZ-900 Certification preferred.

• Experience in implementing and designing serverless architecture solutions.

• Experience with deploying containerized applications.

• Background in data management and pipeline technologies.

• Previous experience working in an Agile team.

• Strong comprehension of observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar tools.

• Solid grasp of distributed system architectures and telemetry.

• Experience in deploying and managing extensive Kubernetes distributed platforms.

• Proficient in GitOps practices and Infrastructure as Code systems, including Terraform, ArgoCD, and Helm.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Short-term incentive programs.

• Remote work flexibility across the U.S.

• Travel required: approximately 10% of the time.