Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Recordedfuture; Göteborgs kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Recorded Future is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team. You will work closely with development teams to build and maintain robust infrastructure, automate provisioning, and foster a culture of operational excellence.

This position requires a strong understanding of cloud environments, observability, and infrastructure as code principles. We value collaboration and a proactive approach to incident prevention and recovery, with

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability/DevOps role.
• Hands-on AWS expertise with networking within AWS.
• Advanced Linux skills (engineering fundamentals, networking, storage, operating systems).
• Experience with observability suites (Grafana, ELK Stack, Prometheus).
• Proven ability to reduce downtime and troubleshoot complex systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Chef).
• Strong documentation and incident-reporting skills.
• Excellent collaboration and communication under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Ensure performance, capacity, scalability, reliability, and security for the platform.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop and manage observability solutions (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus).
• Automate provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Chef.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to respond to incidents.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure high availability and resilience.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and post-incident reviews.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

Apache Kafka

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

Job description

Recorded Future is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing team. In this role, you will work closely with development teams to build and maintain robust infrastructure, implement automation, and foster a culture of operational excellence. This position requires a strong understanding of cloud environments, observability, and infrastructure as code principles.

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What You’ll Do:

• Ensure the performance, capacity, scalability, reliability, resiliency, security, compliance, support, cost efficiency, SLA, SLOs, RPOs, and RTOs for the platform, either directly or in collaboration with other teams.
• Make systemic improvements both proactively and for recurring issues.
• Perform comprehensive Root Cause Analysis for outages.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop and manage observability solutions using tools such as Grafana, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), and Prometheus to monitor system health and performance.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Chef.
• Participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation to respond to and resolve production incidents.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure applications are designed for high availability and resilience.
• Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks and potential issues.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, process optimization, and post‑incident reviews.

What You’ll Bring:

• 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.
• Extensive hands‑on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including a deep understanding of networking concepts within AWS.
• Expert‑level troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.
• Proven track record of reducing system downtime.
• Ability to grasp complex architectures.
• Advanced Linux skills (engineering fundamentals, networking, storage, operating systems).
• Exposure managing and optimizing observability suites (e.g., Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and Chef.
• A strong preference for automating tasks and implementing solutions via Infrastructure as Code rather than manual changes.
• Skilled in creating clear, concise incident reports and technical documentation.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure during an outage.
• Fantastic collaboration skills.
• Spectacular collaborator and communicator.
• A team player but self‑motivated.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with message brokers such as RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, particularly MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with large distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

We are committed to maintaining an environment that attracts and retains talent from a diverse range of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. By ensuring all feel included and respected for being unique and bringing their whole selves to work, Recorded Future is made a better place every day.

Recorded Future is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Recorded Future does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Recorded Future will not discharge, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant.

Recorded Future does not administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. This is in compliance with the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in alignment with our hiring practices across all jurisdictions.

Recorded Future maintains a drug‑free workplace.