Remote SRE: Scale, Resilience & Observability

Arbor Education; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing team

32 days holiday

Life Assurance

Wellness benefit

Dental Insurance

Pension

Maternity/Paternity leave

Career development budget

Job summary

Arbor Education is seeking a proactive Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team. You will help ensure world-class resilience, performance, and capacity planning across the platform, advising on availability, observability, and scalability.

A collaborative environment with cross-team interactions awaits. The role focuses on monitoring, incident response, SLO implementation, and maintaining runbooks and DR plans.

Qualifications

• Experience in performance monitoring and analysis.
• Capacity planning experience.
• Scripting and automation skills with relevant technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, in particular, Terraform.
• Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS Aurora).
• Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads.
• Experience with nginx or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with SRE processes.
• Aware of DevOps principles like the 3 ways and 5 ideals.

Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor and analyse platform performance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to address performance bottlenecks and ensure scalability.
• Assist engineering teams with implementing and reviewing SLOs.
• Continually improve observability through monitoring and alerting, and dashboards.
• Work with other teams to ensure it is effective and provides full coverage.
• Ensure the service is highly available and resilient.
• Champion best practices in design for high availability.
• Develop and maintain playbooks and documentation.

Skills

Performance monitoring

Capacity planning

Automation scripting

Terraform

AWS Aurora

nginx

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

DataDog

Prometheus

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Job description

Arbor Education is seeking a proactive Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team. You will help ensure world-class resilience, performance, and capacity planning across the platform, advising on availability, observability, and scalability.

A collaborative environment with cross-team interactions awaits. The role focuses on monitoring, incident response, SLO implementation, and maintaining runbooks and DR plans.