Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment firm seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Kitchener. You'll design resilient infrastructure, ensuring production health and observability while mentoring junior team members. This role demands extensive Python and Django experience along with leadership in SRE projects. Partial remote flexibility is offered, providing a balance between hands-on engineering and team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience leading SRE projects.
• Extensive Python and Django experience.
• Strong understanding of Terraform provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of production health and observability.
• Mentor fellow SREs and manage infrastructure as code.

Skills

Leading SRE projects

Python

Django

Terraform provisioning

ECS

Fargate Container projects

Job description

Overview

Join a high-impact team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, responsible for the monitoring and Cloud services supporting Python-based features. You’ll design resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure that can withstand heavy load and rapid growth.

Responsibilities

You’ll take ownership of production health and observability, and proactively mitigate vulnerabilities. This role includes mentoring fellow SREs, managing infrastructure as code, and using and understanding Django at a high level. The role is flexible with a seldom presence in their Kitchener office.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience leading SRE projects
• Extensive Python / Django experience
• Strong understanding of Terraform provisioning
• ECS / Fargate Container projects

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of AWS Services
• Previous success in Senior position in modern start-up

Daily Responsibilities

• 70% Hands-On
• 30% Team Collaboration

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

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