Remote Costa Rica Senior SRE: Reliability & Automation Lead

monks; United States; Remote; USD 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within Costa Rica

On-call stipend

Mentorship culture

Job summary

monks is seeking a Senior SRE to improve reliability, scalability, and security for public-facing services as part of a fully remote team supporting healthcare and life sciences workloads. The role focuses on establishing reliability targets, observability, and operational improvements while collaborating with engineers and client stakeholders.

This remote position is based in Costa Rica and requires hands-on SRE experience, strong AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform skills, and fluent English to

Qualifications

• Hands-on SRE experience with production systems and incident response.
• Ability to define SLOs/SLIs and manage error budgets.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Strong observability and alerting design.
• Fluent English and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
• Build observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Lead capacity planning, load testing, and resilience testing.
• Automate operational tasks and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage AWS infra with Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Participate in on-call rotations and blameless postmortems.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

SRE experience

Observability

Reliability objectives

Incident response

Python/Go scripting

Fluent English

Team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

monks is seeking a Senior SRE to improve reliability, scalability, and security for public-facing services as part of a fully remote team supporting healthcare and life sciences workloads. The role focuses on establishing reliability targets, observability, and operational improvements while collaborating with engineers and client stakeholders.

This remote position is based in Costa Rica and requires hands-on SRE experience, strong AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform skills, and fluent English to