Lead Site Reliability Engineer

iScale Solutions; Metro Manila; Remote; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Leave credits (vacation & sick)

Health coverage

Statutory benefits

Learning opportunities

Team engagement

Modern tools

Career growth

Diversity & inclusion

Referral bonuses

Job summary

iScale Solutions is seeking a remote Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability across cloud and on-prem environments. You will implement SLOs/SLIs, automate incident response, and lead post-incident reviews to foster continuous improvement.

The role requires strong Linux, networking, and programming skills (Python/Go), plus hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tooling to ensure high availability and scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience as an SRE in cloud-based and on-prem environments.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems).
• Automate incident detection and response with runbooks/workflows.
• Design and implement full observability using OpenTelemetry for tracing, metrics and logging.
• Ensure 99.9%+ uptime for critical services and scale systems with capacity planning.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to build reliable services.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
• Participate in on-call rotation and chaos engineering initiatives.

Skills

SRE experience

Linux systems

Networking

OpenTelemetry usage

Python/Go

Shell scripting

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

Thanos

ELK (Elastic Stack)

Loki

Chaos Mesh

Chaos Monkey

AWS Fault Injection Simulator

OpenTelemetry

Terraform/Pulumi

Job description

Job Description:

This is a remote position.

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 tools like AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate, etc.

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

Requirements

• 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 Injection Simulator, etc.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary Package: Receive a pay package that matches your skills and experience.
• Vacation and Sick Leave credits: Enjoy vacation and sick leave credits to maintain work-life balance.
• Health Coverage: Get medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Government-Mandated Benefits: Full coverage of all statutory benefits like SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG.
• Learning Opportunities: Access training, certifications, and mentorship to grow your career.
• Team Engagement: Join team-building activities and wellness programs.
• Modern Tools: Use the latest technology to excel in your role.
• Career Growth: Clear paths for promotion and professional development.
• Inclusive Culture: Be part of a diverse, supportive, and collaborative global team.
• Referral Rewards: Earn bonuses for bringing great talent to the team.