Remote Senior SRE: Cassandra & AWS Reliability

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

PTO under local rules

Birthday day off

Health & wellbeing credit

Job summary

Nortal is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available distributed systems and caching platforms. You will drive reliability, scalability and automation across teams, including Java/Spring Boot engineers, architects and client FTEs.

Focus areas include AWS, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning and active-active resiliency, with a strong emphasis on automated deployment, monitoring and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps/production infrastructure.
• Cassandra experience and multi-datacenter deployments.
• Experience with cloud-native, AWS and automation.
• Strong monitoring, observability and performance skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate highly available distributed systems and caching platforms.
• Scale architecture toward significantly higher traffic with resiliency.
• Improve caching strategies and downstream dependency management.
• Automate CI/CD pipelines with canary/blue-green deployments.
• Establish everything-as-code deployment practices.
• Develop monitoring, alerts and telemetry for reliability.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; lead incident reviews.
• Provide technical guidance and guardrails for teams.
• Collaborate with Java/Spring Boot engineers and client teams.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps

AWS

Java/Spring

Observability

CI/CD

English fluency

Leadership

Education

CS degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

AWS MSK

Job description

Nortal is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available distributed systems and caching platforms. You will drive reliability, scalability and automation across teams, including Java/Spring Boot engineers, architects and client FTEs.

Focus areas include AWS, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning and active-active resiliency, with a strong emphasis on automated deployment, monitoring and performance.