Major Incident & Automation Engineer

Arovy; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Anchor office days

Job summary

Sonar is recruiting a Major Incident Manager to join our Austin-based team, driving automation across the software development lifecycle and security tooling. You will work across on-prem and cloud environments, building reliable, observable systems and reducing toil through code-driven approaches.

We value engineers who automate incident response, own post-mortems, and implement preventative measures via infrastructure as code and policy as code.

Qualifications

• Deep IaC expertise with Terraform or CloudFormation and configuration management tools.
• Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) or large-scale private clouds.
• Experience defining, measuring and reporting SLIs and SLOs for critical services.
• Proven observability experience with logging, metrics, and tracing stacks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health, triage alerts, and manage error budgets against SLOs.
• Develop IaC and policy-as-code to automate deployment, configuration, and security hardening.
• Eliminate toil by automating security patches, compliance checks, and certificate rotations.
• Maintain DevSecOps tooling in CI/CD pipelines and ensure robust observability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive post-mortem actions to prevent recurrences.

Skills

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Ansible

Puppet

GCP

Azure

SLO/SLI

Observability

Networking

IAM

Incident Management

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Sonar is recruiting a Major Incident Manager to join our Austin-based team, driving automation across the software development lifecycle and security tooling. You will work across on-prem and cloud environments, building reliable, observable systems and reducing toil through code-driven approaches.

We value engineers who automate incident response, own post-mortems, and implement preventative measures via infrastructure as code and policy as code.