SRE/DevOps Lead - Incident Response, Kubernetes & Go/Python

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

iFood is seeking a Senior SRE/Incident Response engineer to lead critical incident investigations in AWS and Kubernetes. You will develop internal APIs and workers using Go and Python, and contribute to standardization efforts for SLOs/SLIs and incident post-mortems.

You will collaborate with SREs and engineering teams to refine internal tools, prepare for high-impact events, and codify standards via RFCs. Hybrid or on-site in Dubai is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience investigating and responding to critical incidents in AWS and Kubernetes.
• Ability to develop internal solutions using Go and Python.
• Experience with metric standardization (SLOs/SLIs).
• Ability to lead technical refinements and define standards via RFCs.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and respond to critical incidents, providing technical leadership in AWS environments, Kubernetes clusters, and network components.
• Develop internal solutions such as APIs and workers using Go and Python/LangGraph for AI solutions.
• Participate in metric standardization projects, including the definition of SLOs/SLIs, error budget alerts, and burn-rate.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and SREs to evolve internal solutions.
• Prepare applications for high-impact events.
• Contribute to technical refinement to increase team maturity.
• Define and govern standards through RFCs/IRCs.
• Lead deep Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) and GameDays (Chaos Engineering).

Skills

Go

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

SLOs/SLIs

RFCs

Tools

Istio

Datadog

Litmus

Job description

iFood is seeking a Senior SRE/Incident Response engineer to lead critical incident investigations in AWS and Kubernetes. You will develop internal APIs and workers using Go and Python, and contribute to standardization efforts for SLOs/SLIs and incident post-mortems.

You will collaborate with SREs and engineering teams to refine internal tools, prepare for high-impact events, and codify standards via RFCs. Hybrid or on-site in Dubai is expected.