Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nix; Colombia; Remote; COP 100,000,000 - 200,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working format

Remote or office-based options

Competitive salary

Career growth

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Nix in Colombia seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate reliable, scalable systems across Azure and data centers. You will own automation, monitoring, and capacity planning while collaborating with an international team to meet customer needs.

You will design and improve major software components, leading reliability initiatives, and driving continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience with Azure and other clouds; Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling.
• Proven ability to design and operate scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve the full lifecycle of services for high reliability.
• Enhance monitoring to reduce outages and improve MTTR.
• Automate processes to create sustainable, scalable systems.
• Lead designs of major components to improve availability and latency.
• Support services pre-launch with design reviews and capacity planning.
• Perform post-incident analysis and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Unix/Linux

Programming languages

Cloud-agnostic

Monitoring/Observability

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Chef

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who is interested in an opportunity to work for an innovative hospitality company with cutting-edge technologies, with new development activities and challenges ahead. Our international team members share a common desire to develop brilliant products on reliable and resilient systems, along with their own skills. We run our services in Azure and traditional data centers. Take a chance to make a valuable contribution and enhance your professional skills.

About the job:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that cloud services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer needs, and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, SREs will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems' capacity and performance.

On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale that are unique to the project while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. You will provide scalable, reliable, durable, and secure services using a customer-first approach while innovating technically. You will understand our customer needs and how we can meet them.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve the whole lifecycle of services
• Establish and improve monitoring capabilities to reduce outage frequency and duration
• Create sustainable systems through automation and uplifts
• Develop and scale systems sustainably through mechanisms such as automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our services
• Analyze and support services before they go live via system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning
• Conduct post-incident analysis and reviews with an attitude of continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Ideally, strong experience in Azure Services and capabilities, but other cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud Platform etc.) will be considered
• Confidence and strong experience with KubernetesRecent and fluent Terraform and (Chef platform experience nice to have)
• Extensive expertise in software development/testing, development operations, and site reliability engineering
• Experience of Unix/Linux administration - an appreciation of systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls) is a bonus
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) and release orchestration and Configuration Management of VMs
• Cloud-agnostic approach, with flexibility to work across various cloud platforms
• Experience programming in one or more of the following languages: C#,, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, Perl, or Ruby

Nice to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in distributed systems, storage systems, or databases
• Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with excellent communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Experience in configuring application monitoring with Azure Monitor and Application Insight
• Experience with Service Mesh
• Previous experience as a DevOps engineer is preferred

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers