Platform Site Reliability Engineer

First Due; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote workplace

Technology stipend

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Job summary

First Due is seeking a highly motivated Platform Site Reliability Engineer to help build, scale, and maintain our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational systems powering the platform.

The role emphasizes automation, security, observability, and collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Security teams. This fully remote US-based position reports to the Director of Platform Engineering and offers a strong compensation package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• Strong experience managing and supporting production cloud environments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and tooling.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex operational issues.
• Knowledge of networking, security, scalability, and high-availability architectures.
• Strong scripting or automation experience using languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Experience working closely with software engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to balance operational stability with delivery speed and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Build and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions to support repeatable deployments.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability and observability in mind.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity initiatives.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient software delivery.
• Automate manual operational tasks and improve deployment processes across environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to streamline development workflows and reduce operational overhead.
• Improve release management practices and deployment strategies.
• Champion DevOps best practices across the organization.
• Monitor production systems and proactively identify opportunities to improve availability and performance.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Help define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and reliability metrics.
• Support on-call rotations and assist with critical production incidents when necessary.
• Partner with Security and Engineering teams to implement and maintain secure infrastructure practices.
• Support vulnerability remediation, patch management, access controls, and security monitoring.
• Assist with compliance initiatives and infrastructure controls.
• Ensure systems adhere to security, privacy, and operational best practices.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, QA, and Security teams to support platform initiatives.
• Document infrastructure, operational processes, and technical standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, developer experience, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to technical discussions, architectural reviews, and long-term platform strategy.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Scripting

Monitoring & Observability

Incident Response

Security

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

First Due’s mission is to prevent first responder injury or death by providing fire and EMS agencies with transformative, end-to-end software solutions that empower them to run safer, smarter, and more effective operations.

Job Title: Platform Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote - US Only
Country: United States
Department: Engineering
Reports To: Director, Platform Engineering
Position Type: Full-Time
Salary: $165,000 + Bonus

Job Summary:

First Due is seeking a highly motivated Platform Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer to help build, scale, and maintain the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational systems that power our platform. This individual contributor role is responsible for improving system reliability, performance, security, deployment processes, and scalability while partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and Security teams.

The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, operational excellence, cloud infrastructure, software development and deployment processes, observability, and continuous improvement. They thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy solving complex technical challenges that directly impact customers and business outcomes.
This candidate will be an excellent fit if they are not afraid to drive consensus on standards, develop the golden path, and partner with senior engineering leadership to influence or mandate others to adopt the standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Build and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions to support repeatable and reliable deployments.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed and operated with reliability and observability in mind.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity initiatives.

DevOps & Automation

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Automate manual operational tasks and improve deployment processes across environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to streamline development workflows and reduce operational overhead.
• Improve release management practices and deployment strategies.
• Champion DevOps best practices across the organization.

Reliability & Operations

• Monitor production systems and proactively identify opportunities to improve availability and performance.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Help define and monitor service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and reliability metrics.
• Support on-call rotations and assist with critical production incidents when necessary.

Security & Compliance

• Partner with Security and Engineering teams to implement and maintain secure infrastructure practices.
• Support vulnerability remediation, patch management, access controls, and security monitoring.
• Assist with compliance initiatives and infrastructure controls.
• Ensure systems adhere to security, privacy, and operational best practices.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, QA, and Security teams to support platform initiatives.
• Document infrastructure, operational processes, and technical standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, developer experience, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to technical discussions, architectural reviews, and long-term platform strategy.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• Strong experience managing and supporting production cloud environments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and tooling.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex operational issues.
• Knowledge of networking, security, scalability, and high-availability architectures.
• Strong scripting or automation experience using languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Experience working closely with software engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to balance operational stability with delivery speed and business priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting high-growth SaaS platforms.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar automation platforms.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or similar tools.
• Experience with Database Operations, Database Scacling, Query Optimization, and BCDR
• Experience with implementing Zero-downtime deployments
• Familiarity with security frameworks, compliance requirements, and operational governance practices.
• Experience building highly available, mission-critical applications and services.
• Experience supporting distributed and remote engineering organizations.

For US-based Roles
All applicants must be authorized to work for any US employer in the United States. Locality Media LLC is unable to sponsor or transition sponsorship ownership of employment visas at this time. Hiring is contingent upon candidates successfully passing a criminal background check. As part of the I-9 verification of authorization to work in the US, Locality Media participates in E-Verify.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
This role is fully remote with minimal travel expectations at this time. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified employees and applicants to perform the essential functions as outlined above. If you require an accommodation during the interview process, please reach out to [e-mail] .
Working at First Due
First Due offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package for eligible employees, including competitive pay, medical, dental, and vision coverage, FSA/HSA, 401(k), flexible PTO, a fully remote workplace, a technology stipend, opportunities for advancement, and other benefits and perks that sets our team apart. Visit www.firstdue.com to learn more.
If you are a resident of a state requiring wage transparency, please reach out to [e-mail] for a reasonable estimate of annual base compensation and any eligible incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered to successful candidates for roles may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory criteria including but not limited to relevant professional experience, geographic location, knowledge, skills, and abilities.
This range will be reviewed on a regular basis.

First Due is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status or class. We are committed to promoting an environment of respect, acceptance, diversity and inclusivity, and equal opportunity. Discrimination and harassment of any type in any form will not be tolerated.

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