Lead Devops engineer

iScale Solutions; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

iScale Solutions seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to manage SRE practices across cloud and on-prem environments in Metro Manila. You will implement SLOs/SLIs, oversee incident response, and drive reliability with open telemetry and IaC.

The role requires strong Linux, networking, and scripting skills, plus hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Python/Go, and modern observability stacks.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as an SRE in cloud and on-prem environments.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Hands-on with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, ELK or Loki.
• Strong coding skills in Python or Go for production code and shell scripting (bash).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing across metrics/logs.
• Exposure to Chaos Engineering tools (Chaos Mesh, chaos monkey, AWS Fault) and on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to drive reliability.
• Develop resilient systems achieving 99.9%+ uptime for critical services.
• Lead incident responses and blameless postmortems for continuous improvement.
• Automate incident detection with runbooks or predefined workflows.
• Write software as needed to support reliability and efficiency.
• Design full observability across systems using OpenTelemetry for tracing, metrics, and logging.
• Plan capacity, forecasting, and performance tests to scale with load.
• Collaborate with dev and ops to build reliable, scalable services.
• Advocate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
• Participate in chaos engineering initiatives and on-call rotation.
• Drive advanced alerting and anomaly detection on metrics.

Skills

SRE experience

Linux

Networking

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Shell scripting

OpenTelemetry

Chaos Engineering

On-call rotation

Tools

Honeycomb

Grafana

Prometheus

Thanos

ELK

Loki

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Job Description

3-5 years of experience as an SRE, working in cloud-based environments and on-prem environments.

Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration.

Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, with a strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration tools.

Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, ELK (Elastic Stack), or Loki.

Strong skills in at least one programming language (Python, Go) to write production level code.

Strong skills in shell scripting using bash or similar.

Experience with OpenTelemetry or other distributed tracing systems, including tracing, metrics, and logs integration.

Experience with Chaos Engineering methodologies and tools (Chaos Mesh, chaos monkey, AWS Fault

Responsibilities

Implement and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to drive reliability efforts.

Develop systems that are resilient to failures and ensure 99.9%+ uptime for critical services.

Lead incident response and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems), ensuring robust root cause analysis and continuous improvement of systems.

Automate incident detection and response using automated runbooks or predefined workflows.

Write software as needed to support reliability or efficiency needs.

Design and implement full observability across systems using modern tools like Open Telemetry for tracing, metrics, and logging.

Use capacity planning, forecasting, and performance testing to ensure that the systems scale effectively as the user base and load grow.

Collaborate with development and operations teams on building reliable, scalable, and high-performance services.

Ensure best practices are followed across infrastructure design, deployment, and maintenance using

Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.

Get involved in chaos engineering initiatives.

Participate on our on-call rotation.

Drive advanced alerting and anomaly detection applied to metrics