Platform SRE & DevOps Engineer - Remote

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 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.