Lead DevOps & SRE: Reliability, Observability, Chaos

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

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.