Cloud SRE II - Observability & Automation Engineer

Barracuda; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Career growth

Flexible PTO

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Barracuda is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer II to join the CloudOps Platform team. You will focus on observability, monitoring, dashboards, and automation systems powering Barracuda’s multi-tenant Kubernetes platform across AWS and Azure.

You’ll design Grafana dashboards, establish alerting with SLO/SLI tracking, and automate deployments using ArgoCD and Terragrunt. Strong scripting in Python or Bash, Kubernetes experience, and curiosity for AI tooling will help you thrive.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience with public cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
• 1–2+ years deploying or operating containerized workloads in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS).
• Experience configuring dashboards in modern observability stacks (Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
• IaC experience with Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Scripting in Python or Bash; Go a plus.
• Curiosity to use AI coding tools in engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Operate, scale, and automate centralized telemetry infrastructure (Loki, Mimir/Prometheus, Tempo, Grafana).
• Design intuitive Grafana dashboards and health overviews for platform services and clusters.
• Establish reliable alerting, SLO/SLI tracking, and notification routing to detect degradation.
• Automate deployment of log collectors, metric exporters, and monitoring agents across multi-cluster environments using GitOps and Terragrunt.
• Contribute to Kubernetes platform health, performance tuning, and modernization.
• Leverage AI coding tools to build automation, diagnostic tooling, and scripts.
• Collaborate with product and tenant teams on observability onboarding and performance troubleshooting.

Skills

Kubernetes

Grafana

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitOps

Python

Bash

Cloud platforms

Monitoring

Tools

AWS

Azure

Prometheus

Mimir

Loki

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Barracuda is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer II to join the CloudOps Platform team. You will focus on observability, monitoring, dashboards, and automation systems powering Barracuda’s multi-tenant Kubernetes platform across AWS and Azure.

You’ll design Grafana dashboards, establish alerting with SLO/SLI tracking, and automate deployments using ArgoCD and Terragrunt. Strong scripting in Python or Bash, Kubernetes experience, and curiosity for AI tooling will help you thrive.