Senior Site Reliability Engineer

EPAM Systems; Georgia; On-site; USD 46,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation opportunities

Work abroad up to two months per year

Corporate and social events

Certifications (GCP, Azure, AWS)

Free English classes

Job summary

EPAM Georgia is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. You will collaborate with software developers and operations to ensure high reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems, while focusing on meeting customer expectations and automating infrastructure.

You will define SLOs, manage error budgets, reduce toil, and drive continuous improvements across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in any cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with SRE practices such as SLO/SLI, error budgets, postmortems, toil reduction, capacity planning, and incident management.
• Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages.
• Strong background in monitoring tools.
• Proficiency in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development, security, quality, and operations teams to implement SRE practices and ensure system reliability.
• Define and support the required level of reliability, availability, and performance for services and applications.
• Troubleshoot, mitigate, and support fixing of infrastructure and application issues in a timely manner.
• Implement a monitoring system for the infrastructure and application reliability.

Skills

SRE practices

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Python scripting

Monitoring & observability

CI/CD & IaC

Kubernetes & Docker

Incident management & postmortems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Job description

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team.

In this critical role, you will collaborate closely with software developers and operations teams to ensure the high reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems. You will also strongly focus on meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Your expertise will be crucial in deploying, maintaining, and automating our infrastructure and application environments to ensure seamless user experiences.

Your proactive involvement will be key to enhancing system reliability, optimizing resource utilization, and ensuring continuous improvement in our operational practices.

Your responsibilities will include defining and tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs), managing error budgets, and reducing toil through automation. You will play a pivotal role in driving the success of technology initiatives, maximizing their impact across the organization, and ensuring that solutions consistently meet the high standards our customers expect.

To discover more about Cloud practice at EPAM Georgia, visit this page.

Experience the freedom of remote work from anywhere in Georgia, whether from the comfort of your home, our modern offices in Tbilisi and Batumi or a coworking space in Kutaisi.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development, security, quality, and operations teams to implement SRE practices and ensure system reliability
• Define and support the required level of reliability, availability, and performance for services and applications
• Troubleshoot, mitigate, and support fixing of the infrastructure and application issues in a timely manner
• Implement a monitoring system for the infrastructure and application reliability

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience in any cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with implementing SRE practices such as SLO/SLI, Error budgets, Postmortems, Reducing Toil, capacity planning, and Incident Management
• Knowledge of Python or other scripting/programming language
• Strong background in monitoring tools
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code, and configuration management
• Solid knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)

Nice to have

• Expertise in deployment and management of LLMs, including technologies like RAG
• Certification in Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, or similar technologies
• Proven experience in DevOps
• Knowledge of managing and optimizing AI/ML models in production environments, including basic deployment, monitoring, and maintenance

We offer

• We connect like-minded people
  • Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
  • Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your own home
  • Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
  • Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
  • Corporate and social events
• We invest in your growth
  • Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
  • Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
  • Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
  • Free English classes with certified teachers
• We cover it all
  • Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
  • Comprehensive medical & family care package
  • Five trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
  • Benefits package (sports activities, a variety of stores and services)

EPAM Georgia is a team of innovators united by a passion for technology. The dynamic and inclusive culture we embrace helps positively impact our communities, clients, and employees. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to numerous cutting-edge projects, deliver the most creative solutions, and have an opportunity to learn. Our people are at the heart of our success, and we are proud to provide talents with a solid ground to develop and grow.