Senior AWS SRE — Reliability & Automation Lead (Onsite)

System One; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & welfare benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

System One is seeking a Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability for enterprise AWS workloads. You will drive SRE practices, define SLIs/SLOs, and own infrastructure automation across Terraform-based IaC and AWS native tooling.

You will build robust CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab, implement comprehensive monitoring with Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch, and mentor teams on resilience and incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on AWS engineering experience in enterprise production environments.
• Experience across AWS services such as ECS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, Step Functions, Redshift, EMR, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Proven implementation of core SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, alerting and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Implement and improve SRE practices across AWS hosted enterprise applications and services.
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, alarms, availability, and reliability metrics.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Python or Java.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and AWS native tooling.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, and related technologies.
• Implement monitoring, APM, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting using Splunk, SignalFx, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch.
• Improve application resilience, failover readiness, recovery automation, and production stability.
• Analyze application and infrastructure performance, identify recurring reliability issues, and implement sustainable improvements.
• Troubleshoot AWS workloads, application performance, data pipelines, networking/DNS, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation issues.
• Support production incidents, releases, platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and controlled infrastructure changes.
• Establish performance baselines and help improve monitoring and operational readiness.
• Lead technical discussions and coordinate resolution across teams.

Skills

SRE practices

Ownership & collaboration

Analytical troubleshooting

Communication

On-call experience

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitLab

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Python

Java

Job description

System One is seeking a Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability for enterprise AWS workloads. You will drive SRE practices, define SLIs/SLOs, and own infrastructure automation across Terraform-based IaC and AWS native tooling.

You will build robust CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab, implement comprehensive monitoring with Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch, and mentor teams on resilience and incident response.