Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Establish and uphold DevOps guardrails, standards, and best practices throughout engineering teams.

• Empower engineering teams to design, implement, and sustain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, secure, and repeatable deployments.

• Collaborate with application teams to co-develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code utilizing tools like Terraform.

• Set up and manage blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies.

• Create and support self-service tooling for developers and internal platforms.

• Integrate reliability, security, and observability practices early in the software development lifecycle.

• Define, implement, and oversee SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for essential services.

• Construct and maintain observability stacks that include logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting.

• Direct incident response and management, which encompasses on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems.

• Conduct capacity planning and performance engineering.

• Recognize and eliminate toil through automation.

• Carry out reliability assessments and chaos engineering exercises.

• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to enhance reliability, cost, and performance.

• Collaborate with software engineering teams on system architecture, resiliency patterns, and fault tolerance.

• Provide support and maintenance for .NET-based services across both Windows and Linux environments.

• Achieve uptime and availability targets, minimize MTTD and MTTR, enhance DevOps guardrail adoption, reduce operational toil, and manage error budgets.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

• More than 5 years of experience with AWS (preferred); multi-cloud experience is an advantage.

• Strong expertise in Terraform.

• Extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.

• Significant experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS preferred).

• Proficient with tools such as New Relic, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, or Grafana.

• Proficient in .NET, PowerShell, Python, Go, or Bash.

• Strong skills in Linux and Windows systems administration.

• Solid understanding of DNS, load balancing, CDNs, and network security.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Experience in implementing and managing service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh).

• Familiarity with SRE frameworks as described in Google's SRE handbook.

• Experience with secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).

• Understanding of compliance and regulatory requirements in financial services (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, etc.).

• Experience with chaos engineering tools (e.g., Gremlin, Litmus, AWS Fault Injection Simulator).

• Background in supporting .NET applications in production environments.

• Experience in financial industry/banking infrastructure is beneficial but not mandatory.

• Experience in crypto/blockchain infrastructure is a plus but not essential.

• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and patterns.

• Understanding of cost optimization and FinOps practices in cloud environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible work hours and remote working options.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.