Senior SRE – AI-Driven Cloud & Reliability Leader

Cover Genius; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 115,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Cover Genius is building an AI-first infrastructure platform and seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across multiple teams. You will shape system design, tooling, and process to scale production systems while reducing operational risk.

You will apply cloud expertise (AWS/GCP), implement observability standards, and mentor engineers on best practices. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic reliability ownership in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps or related roles.
• Experience applying SRE principles to lead cross-team projects.
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with cloud native tech: Docker, Kubernetes; Terraform.
• Scripting in Bash; Python or Go.
• AI-driven development environments and using AI in workflows.
• Experience on Linux, networking, distributed systems.
• Deep AWS and/or GCP expertise.
• Bachelor's in CS/Engineering; postgraduate degrees desirable.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, and implement reliability and infrastructure improvements across multi-team projects.
• Apply AWS and GCP expertise to architect reliable, highly-available cloud infra.
• Develop observability standards and dashboards used by other teams.
• Champion SLOs and incident response practices to protect service quality.
• Lead blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement.
• Build automation and self-service tooling to reduce toil.
• Mentor engineers on systems thinking and production ownership.
• Ensure security best practices in infra and pipelines.

Skills

SRE concepts

Platform engineering

Observability tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bash

Python/Go

AI tools

Linux

AWS/GCP

Networking

Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering

Postgraduate degree desirable

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Cover Genius is building an AI-first infrastructure platform and seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives across multiple teams. You will shape system design, tooling, and process to scale production systems while reducing operational risk.

You will apply cloud expertise (AWS/GCP), implement observability standards, and mentor engineers on best practices. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic reliability ownership in a hybrid work environment.