Site Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Acquire a thorough understanding of VDC workloads, dependencies, and operational processes by reviewing code, documentation, and collaborating with subject matter experts (SMEs).

• Develop and keep updated runbooks, incident guides, and operational documentation.

• Aid in knowledge transfer and assist in the creation of onboarding materials for the team.

• Engage in incident response activities, including triage, investigation, mitigation, and postmortems.

• Assist in the implementation and upkeep of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets as defined by the team.

• Identify reliability challenges during incidents or reviews and suggest specific improvements.

• Contribute to high availability and fault tolerance initiatives on Azure, including Azure Government.

• Bridge monitoring gaps by setting up instrumentation, alerting, and dashboards in line with team standards.

• Help reduce toil through automation and improvements in tooling.

• Take part in on-call rotations.

• Work with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tools in compliance-restricted settings.

• Assist in testing, canary deployments, and validation workflows for releases.

• Implement infrastructure and configuration changes according to established patterns and review protocols.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, compliance, and operations teams to achieve reliability enhancements.

• Clearly communicate system behavior, risks, and status—both in writing and during meetings.

• Proactively identify blockers and gaps; do not wait for issues to escalate.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in Software Engineering, with a minimum of 1 year in SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevOps focused on cloud-hosted services.

• Proficient in cloud infrastructure on Azure or a similar cloud provider.

• Knowledge of regulated or compliance-focused environments such as government (FedRAMP, CMMC), financial (PCI-DSS), or healthcare (HIPAA). You recognize how compliance impacts operational capabilities.

• Competent in reading and comprehending code well enough to investigate system behavior autonomously.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK stack).

• Experience using IaC tools (Terraform, Terragrunt, or Pulumi) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD.

• Strong programming abilities in one or more languages: TypeScript/JS, Go, Java, C#, or similar.

• Solid understanding of the principles of distributed systems and basic networking.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares.

• Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day.

• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program.

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions.

• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance through Maven, plus paid volunteer time.

• AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost.

• Legal services, identity protection, and additional health insurance options.

• Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting.

• Opportunities for learning and growth through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events such as our annual Global Day of Learning.