AWS SRE

Savvyan Technologies; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Savvyan Technologies is seeking an experienced AWS Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS in Columbus, OH. You will partner with development, operations, and security teams to improve reliability and performance.

Responsibilities include deploying scalable AWS infrastructure, implementing IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, building CI/CD pipelines, monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, and handling

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in AWS-focused SRE or DevOps roles.
• Proven ability to design scalable, highly available AWS architectures.
• Experience implementing IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong CI/CD automation across pipelines and environments.
• Proficient in monitoring and incident response practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure with IaC tools.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor system health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Manage AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Automate repetitive tasks with Python or Bash.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead incident response and on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with development and security teams to improve reliability.
• Maintain runbooks and documentation.

Skills

AWS infrastructure

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Python

Bash

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

Monitoring

Incident management

Networking

Git

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Site Reliability Engineer (AWS SRE) to design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS cloud services, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident management, and DevOps practices.

The candidate will work closely with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to improve system reliability, automate operational processes, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure optimal application performance and availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage, and maintain scalable and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Develop, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated application build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Monitor system health, application performance, availability, and reliability using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Manage and support AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, RDS, Lambda, and EKS/ECS.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
• Implement reliability engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
• Manage incident response, on‑call support, system recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement security best practices, access controls, monitoring, and compliance standards across AWS environments.
• Collaborate with application development, DevOps, security, and infrastructure teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency.
• Support containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and incident reports.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Shell.
• Experience with Linux system administration, troubleshooting, networking, and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience in production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, load balancing, and high‑availability architectures.
• Familiarity with Git and version control practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS EKS/ECS, Lambda, RDS, and serverless architectures.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience implementing disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
• Familiarity with ITIL, Agile, and DevOps methodologies.