Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the Kubernetes-aware patching workflow, encompassing cordon/drain/uncordon coordination, etcd quorum management, cluster-specific lock prioritization, and deadlock avoidance.

• Manage the entire cluster onboarding process, aiming to decrease lead time from weeks to days, pinpoint friction areas, document repeatable procedures, and create runbooks.

• Oversee the Vault integration surface, which includes managing AppRole credentials, handling the PKI certificate lifecycle, supporting Vault-backed AWX credential types, and facilitating IAM key rotation.

• Develop significant alerting systems and take complete ownership of at least one Grafana dashboard area, overseeing everything from metric ingestion to actionable alert rules.

• Contribute to AI and automation projects, such as the AI-driven vulnerability remediation pipeline and tools designed to minimize team toil.

• Mentor junior team members and engage in code review processes.

• Participate in architectural decisions alongside Staff leads.

• Engage in the on-call rotation.

• Independently manage incident response at the Senior level, including timelines, communication, and conducting blameless postmortems.

• Build and maintain the Linux Patching Automation platform, a multi-cluster AWX automation system that ensures GoDaddy's Linux fleet remains patched and secure.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering or infrastructure engineering within a production environment.

• Proficient in Ansible; capable of independently writing idempotent roles and playbooks, while understanding variable precedence, handlers, and molecule-style testing.

• Experience in Linux systems administration, including yum/dnf, systemd, kernel patching, and troubleshooting package conflicts.

• In-depth operational knowledge of Kubernetes, covering pod scheduling, node lifecycle management, and awareness of etcd quorum.

• Familiarity with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC); able to read, modify, and create modules configured using variable files.

• Proficient in Python scripting to manage and extend utility scripts and the machine learning-based vulnerability pipeline.

• Experienced in GitHub Actions and CI pipeline management, including ansible-lint, Semgrep gates, and adherence to conventional commit standards.

• Previous experience with on-call rotations and incident response, demonstrating the ability to independently manage an incident.

• Actively involved in AI-assisted development.

• Knowledgeable in Service Level Indicators (SLI) and Service Level Objectives (SLO).

• Preferred experience with HashiCorp Vault, including AppRole, PKI, or dynamic secrets.

• Preferred operational experience with AWX or Automation Controller.

• Experience with ServiceNow, including CMDB, Change Orders, or REST API integration.

• Familiarity with Grafana, Loki, or Prometheus in creating dashboards and alert rules.

• Awareness of MySQL replication.

• Understanding of HAProxy or load-balancer-aware drain logic.

• Exposure to OpenStack or similar private cloud/bare-metal environments.

• Experience in identifying and reducing process lead times.

• The position encourages applicants whose backgrounds or skill sets may not perfectly match every requirement.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid time off.

• Retirement savings options, including 401k and pension plans.

• Eligibility for bonuses/incentives.

• Equity grants.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• Competitive health benefit packages.

• Parental leave.

• Family-friendly benefits.

• Access to Employee Resource Groups.

• Application support from the recruiting team.