Site Reliability Engineer – SRE

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

📋 Description

• Ensure that Drivetrain's rapidly expanding SaaS platform remains highly available, efficient, and secure.

• Design, manage, and optimize a highly available multi-cloud infrastructure utilizing AWS and GCP.

• Balance the demands of workloads to achieve cost-effectiveness, scalability, and strict adherence to security compliance.

• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable Kubernetes clusters with the use of Kustomize.

• Implement and sustain service mesh technologies, including Istio or Linkerd.

• Promote container security practices, encompassing image scanning, runtime protection, and RBAC enforcement.

• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Git and Jenkins.

• Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules for cloud resource management.

• Develop Python tools to automate maintenance, backups, scaling, and system recovery.

• Create and enhance observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, AWS CloudWatch, and GCP Operations Suite.

• Lead initiatives focused on reliability and capacity planning.

• Oversee incident response, facilitate blameless postmortems, and define as well as enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.

• Collaborate with software engineers to enhance deployability, scalability, and resilience.

• Identify bottlenecks, refine processes, develop internal developer tooling, and maintain documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

• Experience in a fast-paced SaaS environment is preferred.

• In-depth, proven expertise in AWS, including EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, and S3.

• In-depth, proven expertise in GCP, including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, IAM, and Cloud Storage.

• Ability to navigate and optimize multi-cloud architectures effectively.

• Expert-level knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, encompassing advanced deployment strategies and lifecycle management.

• Strong programming capabilities in Python.

• Extensive experience with Terraform.

• Hands-on expertise in creating dashboards and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/EFK log aggregation stacks.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, including VPC peering, load balancing, and DNS.

• Familiarity with zero-trust security principles in a containerized environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-friendly work arrangement.

• Significant autonomy for employees.

• Culture that values openness and transparency.

• An environment that encourages ideas, experimentation, and learning.

• A customer-centric, product-led growth culture.