Senior AWS SRE: Reliability, IaC & CI/CD Champion

System One; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Voluntary plans

Job summary

System One is seeking an experienced Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Birmingham, Alabama operations onsite on a contract-to-hire basis. You will define and monitor SLIs/SLOs, build resilient infrastructure, and lead reliability improvements across AWS hosted applications.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of AWS experience, extensive Terraform IaC usage, and strong Python/Java automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands on AWS engineering experience in enterprise production environments.
• Deep knowledge of ECS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, Step Functions, Redshift, EMR, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch.
• Proven SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, alerting, incident response, resiliency.
• Strong Terraform / IaC experience for infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools.
• Programming/automation skills in Python or Java.

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 across logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards.
• Improve application resilience, failover readiness, recovery automation, and production stability.
• Lead technical discussions and coordinate resolution across teams.

Skills

AWS

SRE practices

Terraform IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Java

Observability

CloudWatch

Troubleshooting

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Job description

System One is seeking an experienced Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Birmingham, Alabama operations onsite on a contract-to-hire basis. You will define and monitor SLIs/SLOs, build resilient infrastructure, and lead reliability improvements across AWS hosted applications.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of AWS experience, extensive Terraform IaC usage, and strong Python/Java automation.