Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nodi; Bogotá; Remote; COP 9,000,000 - 15,000,000; Full time

Job summary

MPS Group is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and run highly scalable cloud platforms supporting critical enterprise apps. You will partner with Engineering, DevOps, Platform, and Security teams to implement reliability practices and drive improvements in performance, availability, and resilience.

You will lead incident responses, define SLIs/SLOs, and push for robust monitoring, automated tooling, and scalable architectures across AWS and GCP in a remote setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience supporting production systems in AWS and/or GCP environments.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational excellence.
• Experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes platforms such as EKS and/or GKE.
• Strong knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, Splunk, or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or comparable languages.
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, cloud security, and performance optimization.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud migration or modernization programs (preferred).
• Expertise in incident management and production operations for high-availability systems (preferred).
• Experience implementing chaos engineering or resilience testing practices (preferred).
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio (preferred).
• AWS and/or GCP certifications (preferred).
• Experience working in Agile, DevOps, or DevSecOps environments (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reliability strategies for distributed systems running across AWS and GCP.
• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and reliability metrics.
• Build and enhance observability solutions using monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes to improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system performance, resiliency, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Automate operational processes and reduce toil through engineering solutions.
• Guide teams on reliability-focused architecture decisions, capacity planning, and non-functional requirements.

Skills

SRE principles

Incident management

Kubernetes operations

Automation scripting

Agile / DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus/Grafana

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

Job description

Job Type Contract

Seniority Senior

Workplace Remote

About MPS Group

At MPS Group, we empower businesses with cutting-edge technology solutions and expert consulting. We proudly serve a diverse range of industries, including IT, Fintech, Airlines, Energy, and more. Our expertise spans front-end technologies (React, Angular, Vue.js), back-end technologies (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python), and comprehensive Data Solutions (Database, Data Warehousing, BI, Reporting, Analytics). Our services include custom software development, QA Testing (SDET), Automation Testing, IT staffing, business development consulting, and DevOps services. We adopt both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, offering flexibility through onshore, nearshore, and offshore delivery models. From cloud solutions (Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP) to digital advisory and project management, we craft innovative, tailored strategies designed to meet your specific business goals and drive long-term success.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build, operate, and evolve highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms supporting critical enterprise applications. As part of a large-scale cloud transformation initiative, you will partner closely with Engineering, DevOps, Platform, and Security teams to establish reliability practices, improve operational excellence, and ensure systems meet performance, availability, and scalability objectives. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, incident management, and reliability engineering. You will drive technical decisions, influence engineering practices, and help teams design systems that are resilient by design. Note: This project involves a migration from AWS to GCP, so the candidate must have strong experience with AWS and at least some exposure to GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement reliability strategies for distributed systems running across AWS and GCP.
• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and reliability metrics.
• Build and enhance observability solutions using monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes to improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system performance, resiliency, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Automate operational processes and reduce toil through engineering solutions.
• Guide teams on reliability-focused architecture decisions, capacity planning, and non-functional requirements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience supporting production systems in AWS and/or GCP environments.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational excellence.
• Experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes platforms such as EKS and/or GKE.
• Strong knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, Splunk, or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or comparable languages.
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, cloud security, and performance optimization.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud migration or modernization programs (preferred).
• Expertise in incident management and production operations for high-availability systems (preferred).
• Experience implementing chaos engineering or resilience testing practices (preferred).
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio (preferred).
• AWS and/or GCP certifications (preferred).
• Experience working in Agile, DevOps, or DevSecOps environments (preferred).

Details regarding benefits, compensation packages, and perks will be discussed during the hiring process.