Remote SRE Engineer: Cloud Reliability & Automation

Noctua Technology; United States; Remote; USD 107,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Noctua Technology is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to apply software engineering to operations, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems across cloud-native environments.

You will define SLOs, build IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, deploy containerized and serverless apps with Docker and Kubernetes, and automate CI/CD pipelines to reduce toil while maintaining high availability. US citizenship and active Secret clearance eligibility are required.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years of experience in site reliability engineering, cloud engineering, or related fields.
• Strong software engineering skills for automation and system management.
• Proficiency with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of networking concepts, cloud security best practices, and IAM.
• Experience with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex cloud environments.
• Effective communication skills and a willingness to learn and collaborate.

Responsibilities

• Define, measure, and report on SLIs and SLOs to ensure system reliability and uptime.
• Develop and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools, with an emphasis on repeatability and change management.
• Implement and manage containerized and serverless architectures using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native services, focusing on performance and error budgets.
• Build and maintain reliable and self-healing CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and improve development workflows.
• Implement and refine comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging to detect and address performance and availability issues proactively.
• Eliminate toil by extensively automating operational tasks, including provisioning, patching, and deployments, using scripting and configuration management tools such as Python, Bash, or Ansible.
• Conduct post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems) to drive continuous improvement in system reliability and operational processes.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve operability and production readiness of applications from design through deployment.
• Create and maintain documentation for cloud architectures, deployment processes, and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and support to clients and internal teams on cloud infrastructure and reliability best practices, with a focus on defining SLAs.

Skills

Python

Bash

Go

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Networking concepts

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Noctua Technology is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to apply software engineering to operations, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems across cloud-native environments.

You will define SLOs, build IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, deploy containerized and serverless apps with Docker and Kubernetes, and automate CI/CD pipelines to reduce toil while maintaining high availability. US citizenship and active Secret clearance eligibility are required.