Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Assist in the transition of products from on-premises data centers to AWS Cloud.

• Develop and execute cloud best practices for products that have been newly transitioned.

• Maintain operational oversight of cloud environments while optimizing, reengineering, and enhancing efficiency.

• Ensure that SaaS products operating in the cloud are stable and dependable.

• Improve automation, scaling, process efficiencies, metric collection, security, and environmental visibility.

• Apply DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD processes.

• Collaborate closely with development teams to facilitate secure and manageable changes in production.

• Support enterprise PaaS and SaaS offerings developed by Platform teams.

• Act as the primary contact for products and the underlying AWS infrastructure.

• Work within Agile methodologies utilizing Scrum and Kanban boards.

• Empower development teams with knowledge of cloud best practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Design and implement scalable and reliable solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Enhance end-to-end observability for cloud applications.

• Assist with on-premises applications and their migration to AWS Cloud.

• Lead strategic initiatives for seamless application integration and optimal performance in cloud-native environments.

• Perform additional duties as assigned by the manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Over 5 years of relevant industry experience, including at least 1 year in an Associate-level role or an equivalent external position.

• Comprehensive DevOps experience, ideally comprising 70% Operations and 30% Development efforts.

• Significant experience with containerization, Kubernetes, EKS, and CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitOps methodologies such as ArgoCD and FluxCD.

• Proficient in using Git for version control; experience with Azure DevOps is preferred.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools, particularly CloudWatch alerts, troubleshooting issues, and serving as an escalation resource.

• Capability to configure, tune, and secure APIs/Microservices to ensure optimal performance and uptime.

• Proficient in using curl and wget for diagnostics, network performance analysis, and connectivity troubleshooting.

• In-depth understanding of HTTP concepts and protocols.

• Strong experience with Terraform and best practices for Infrastructure as Code.

• Advanced scripting and automation abilities in Python, Bash, and PowerShell.

• Expertise in AWS Transfer Family for large files, EC2 instances and AMIs, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Load Balancers.

• Proficiency in SQL and SQL administration, including database/schema/catalog configurations, user/logins, synonyms, and RDS performance troubleshooting.

• Understanding of database hygiene concepts, data integrity, and efficient data storage practices.

• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Linkerd or Istio is a plus.

• Required experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

• Strong skills in network management.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Experience with Azure DevOps, encompassing ticket management, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and Infrastructure as Code.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work hours.

• PTO and paid holidays.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• 401K.

• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses in certain positions.