Senior Platform SRE - Remote (US)

Ardan Labs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ardan Labs is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a platform team and take ownership of reliability for an internal developer platform and for the experiences of application teams building on it.

This hands-on senior individual contributor role focuses on operating Kubernetes at scale, solving complex infrastructure problems, and working directly with teams to diagnose and resolve issues, including HIPAA-compliant security hygiene and patching as ongoing priorities.

Qualifications

• >=8 years in infrastructure, platform engineering or SRE
• >3 years production Kubernetes experience
• >experience with GitOps in production
• Terraform across cloud accounts or environments
• Understanding of cloud identity and resource policies
• Ability to lead technical work without direct authority
• Strong troubleshooting and communications skills
• Comfort working with application teams rather than behind the scenes

Responsibilities

• Own health and reliability of Kubernetes management and workload clusters across sandbox, development, QA, and production environments
• Diagnose and permanently resolve GitOps delivery and reconciliation failures
• Manage version and component adoption to ensure fixes/deployments across clusters
• Develop and maintain Terraform and infrastructure pipelines across a multi-account AWS environment
• Work with cloud identity, resource policies, and key management to resolve permission issues
• Partner with application teams to troubleshoot manifests, secrets, certificates, ingress, and other platform issues
• Build documentation, guides, and guardrails to enable self-sufficiency
• Own and improve telemetry path into the observability platform
• Partner with security, networking, vendors, and other teams during incidents
• Participate in incident response and drive durable resolutions
• Lead technical initiatives across teams without direct reporting lines

Skills

8+ years experience

production Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

cloud identity & policies

lead without authority

troubleshooting & systems thinking

cross-team communication

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Ardan Labs is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a platform team and take ownership of reliability for an internal developer platform and for the experiences of application teams building on it.

This hands-on senior individual contributor role focuses on operating Kubernetes at scale, solving complex infrastructure problems, and working directly with teams to diagnose and resolve issues, including HIPAA-compliant security hygiene and patching as ongoing priorities.