Remote Platform SRE | Scale, Automate & Secure Cloud

First Due; United States; Remote; USD 99,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, software development and deployment processes,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• 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 (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with collaborating with software engineering teams throughout the SDLC.

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, and performance.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed for reliability and observability.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity initiatives.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
• Automate manual tasks and improve deployment processes across environments.
• Improve release management practices and deployment strategies.
• Champion DevOps best practices across the organization.
• Monitor production systems and proactively identify opportunities to improve availability.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analyses, 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 incidents.

Skills

Automation

Cloud infra

CI/CD

Observability

Reliability

SRE practices

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

CloudFormation

Job description

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

The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, software development and deployment processes,